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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
OUR PRICE: $57.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: April 2011
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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
 
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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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