"The Chicago Renaissance has long been considered a less important literary movement than the Harlem Renaissance. While the Harlem Renaissance began and flourished during the 1920s, but faded during the 1930s, the Chicago Renaissance originated between 1890 and 1910, gathered momentum in the 1930s, and paved the way for the postmodern and postcolonial developments in American Literature. To portray Chicago as a modern, spacious, cosmopol ..."
"This book explores the influence of Buddhist ontology, Zen, and Confucian philosophies, as well as Jack Kerouac's own experiences in wandering and meditating in the fields and on the mountains in America, on the development and composition ..."
"This collection of eleven essays concerns the movement of modernity in East-West literary criicism. Most of the contributions address particular cross-cultural relationships such as W.B. Yeat's interest in the 'noh' play, Ezra Pound's imagism, and the influence of Zen aesthetics on Western poetry. The Western writers discussed range from Americans, including Emerson, Thoreau, Faulkner, Wright, and Snyder, to Europeans, such as Marcel Pr ..."
"In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani document the life in letters of the greatest African American writer of the twentieth century. The author of Black Boy and Native Son, among other works, Wright wrote unflinchingly about the black experience in the United States, where his books still influence discussions of race and social justice. Entries are documented by Wright's journals, artic ..."
East-West Literary Imagination(1st Edition) Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison by YoshinobuHakutani Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Missouri ISBN-13: 978-0-8262-2182-7, ISBN: 0-8262-2182-3
"This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists explored Eastern philosophies and arts. Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demons ..."
" Yoshinobu Hakutani traces the development of African American modernism, which initially gathered momentum with Richard Wright's literary manifesto "Blueprint for Negro Writing" in 1937. Hakutani dissects and discusses the cross-cultural influences on the then-burgeoning discipline in three stages: American dialogues, European and African cultural visions, and Asian and African American cross-cultural visions. In writing Black Bo ..."
"This book traces the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and its history as one of the most popular East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchanges in modern and postmodern times."
"Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku is a reading of the haiku collected in Jack Kerouac’s Book of Haikus, edited by Regina Weinreich, (2003), one of the two largest collections of English haiku. “Above all,” Kerouac wrote in his journal, “a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and makes a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella.” Before trying his hand at compos ..."
"Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures Before coming to national attention for his novel Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer. Now in paperback, Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902 collects a rich selection of Dreiser's brief, colorful articles and interviews with American artists, musicians, and writers during this period. His pro ..."
Young Dreiser A Critical Study by YoshinobuHakutani Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 1981 by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-8386-2268-1, ISBN: 0-8386-2268-2
"DONALD B. GIBSON Woe to the bloody city. It is all full of lies and robbery. —
Nahum 3:1 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. —Rev. 21-2 God the
first garden made, and the first city Cain. — Cowley1 The conception of the city
figured in these representations emerges from specific assumptions about reality,
assumptions firmly fixed in western thoug ..."
East-West Literary Imagination(1st Edition) Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison by Dr YoshinobuHakutani Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Missouri ISBN-13: 978-0-8262-2080-6, ISBN: 0-8262-2080-0
"This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists explored Eastern philosophies and arts. Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demons ..."
"The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was the reading and writing of haiku. Richard Wright wrote over four thousand haiku, Alice Walker’s work reflects her affinity for Zen philosophy, and Ishmael Reed’s work includes a discussion of Eastern thought. Here, esteemed contributors investigate the impact of Eastern philosophy and religion on African Amer ..."
"Before he came to national attention for his 1900 novel Sister Carrie , Dreiser worked as a magazine editor and freelance writer. This volume comprises 33 of Dreiser's interviews and essays, most of which have not been republished since they first appeared in print. The pieces look into many corners of the American arts scene as the Modernist era began cranking up at the turn of the last century. In making observations on the work of wr ..."
"Yonejirō Noguchi (野口 米次郎 ) (1875 -1947), was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is known in the West by his pen name Yone Noguchi. He was the father of noted sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The focus of Volume 1 is the poetry that the young immigrant poet wrote while he lived in the Sierra Mountains before the turn of the century under the inspiration of the America ..."
"A collection of about a third of Japanese transcultural poet and critic Yone Noguchi's works in English between 1896 and 1940, focusing on the poetry the young immigrant wrote while living in the Sierra Mountains before the turn of the century and also poems he wrote in Japan in the early part of the twentieth century."
"The city has been the main setting for modern African-American literature, and the fifteen essays in this collection show that this body of writing has been remarkable for the variety of ways in which it has made significant affirmations about urban society in America."