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University Press of Mississippi African American Haiku: Cultural Visions (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)

Name: African American Haiku: Cultural Visions (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
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The first study solely dedicated to exploring the power of African American haiku Contributions by Yoshinobu Hakutani, Richard A. Iadonisi, Toru Kiuchi, Sheila Smith McKoy, Sachi Nakachi, Ce Rosenow, Meta L. Schettler,Virginia Whatley Smith, and Claude Wilkinson African American Haiku: Cultural Visions offers insights into African American poets' innovations in the haiku form, shedding light on a neglected aspect of black poetry. Notable scholars present new interpretations of well-known works. Essays trace the verse of five major African American haiku poets: Richard Wright, James Emanuel, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, and Lenard D. Moore. Sachi Nakachi investigates the influence of Japanese aesthetics and Eastern philosophy on Richard Wright's haiku showing Wright's interest in the blues as poetry. Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes the vision and affinity of jazz and haiku throughout James Emanuel's Jazz from the Haiku King. And Claude Wilkinson digs into Etheridge Knight's improvisation and adherence to tradition of haiku and African American vernacular form. The collection also explores how Sanchez creates a new American hybrid form of the modern haiku in English by blending haiku with her own principles of a black aesthetic. Toru Kiuchi shows how Lenard D. Moore expresses his experiences through haiku with his African American aesthetics and connections to black southern culture. By discussing multiple writers from a variety of disciplines in a single volume, the essayists compare and contrast the work created by writers, poets, and musicians, and illuminate the variety of methods African American authors used when adapting this traditional Japanese form. The result is a volume that offers rich insight into African American aesthetics, the black arts movement, gender issues, blues and jazz, and trends in contemporary poetry. John Zheng, Greenwood, Mississippi, is professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University. He was director of NEH projects on Richard Wright and on African American Literary Heritage and editor of The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku (University Press of Mississippi).

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Brand: University Press of Mississippi
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1496803035
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
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Release Date: 01 January 2016
Listed Since: 29 April 2015

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