Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Richard Wright’s Haiku, Zen, and the African “Primal Outlook upon Life”
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Chapter 2
Richard Wright’s Haiku, Japanese Poetics, and Classical Chinese Poetry
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Chapter 3
Wordsworthian Nature Poetry, Ashanti Culture, and Richard Wright’s Haiku: This Other World
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Chapter 4
Cross-Cultural Poetics: Sonia Sanchez’s Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums
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Chapter 5
Jean Toomer Revisited in James Emanuel’s Postmodernist Jazz Haiku
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Chapter 6
The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
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Chapter 7
West, East, Africa: Richard Wright’s Native Son and Classic Movie Monsters
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Chapter 8
Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo through Confucianism
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Chapter 9
“A Beautiful Black Butterfly”: Eastern Aesthetics and Postmodernism in Ishmael Reed’S Japanese by Spring
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Chapter 10
“All Narratives Are Lies, Man, an Illusion”: Buddhism and Postmodernism Versus Racism in Charles Johnson’S Middle Passage and Dreamer
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