Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature

Part I. Essays on Poetry

1. Richard Wright’s Haiku, Zen, and the African “Primal Outlook upon Life”
Yoshinobu Hakutani

2. Richard Wright’s Haiku, Japanese Poetics, and Classical Chinese Poetry
Jianqing Zheng

3. Wordsworthian Nature Poetry, Ashanti Culture, and Richard Wright’s Haiku: This Other World
Peter Landino

4. Cross-Cultural Poetics: Sonia Sanchez’s Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums
Yoshinobu Hakutani

5. Jean Toomer Revisited in James Emanuel’s Postmodernist Jazz Haiku
Virginia Whatley Smith

Part II. Essays on Ideology

6. The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Yoshinobu Hakutani

7. West, East, Africa: Richard Wright’s Native Son and Classic Movie Monsters
Mera Moore

8. Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo through Confucianism
Yupei Zhou

9. “A Beautiful Black Butterfly”: Eastern Aesthetics and Postmodernism in Ishmael Reed’S Japanese by Spring
Preston Park Cooper

10. “All Narratives Are Lies, Man, an Illusion”: Buddhism and Postmodernism Versus Racism in Charles Johnson’S Middle Passage and Dreamer
Preston Park Cooper

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, US History, Cultural Anthropology