The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku Contributor(s): Zheng, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1617030228 ISBN-13: 9781617030222 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: April 2011 Click for more in this series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
Dewey: 811.52 |
LCCN: 2010040114 |
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.10 lbs) 176 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku reveals Richard Wright's poetic vision toward the human world. Through the minimal form of haiku, Wright (1908-1960) found his poetic connection to nature. This sensibility displays not only the change in him as a writer but also the tenderness in him as a human being. These essays open up a new territory in Wright studies by tracing the development of Wright's aesthetic and its relationship to African and Japanese cultures. The book tells how haiku offered a therapeutic outlet for Wright in his final two years of life in Paris, explores the influence of Zen Buddhism on Wright's haiku, and delivers a thematic analysis of Wright's haiku. The collection also gives us a focused examination of how Wright's haiku reveal a conflict between nature and culture, how women are exploited for labor and sex by the culture at-large, and how the South in Wright's haiku symbolizes a place full of dreams, memories, hardships, and loneliness with his images of cotton, freight trains, croaking frogs, magnolia trees, and hog-killing. |
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