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This new monograph explores the literature of this pivotal period and some of it's most influential works and authors, from Theodore Dreiser in the late 1800's to Richard Wright through the mid 1900's.
Sommario
Introduction
Part I: Interactions of African and European American Writers
Chapter 1: "The Chicago Renaissance, Dreiser, and Wright's Spatial Narrative"
Chapter 2: "Chicago as Metaphor in the Writings of Dreiser and Wright: Tracing the Literary Lineage"
Chapter 3: "Dreiser's 'Nigger Jeff,' Wright's 'Big Boy Leaves Home,' and Lynching"
Chapter 4: "Chicago in Dreiser's
Sister Carrie, James Farrell's
Studs Lonigan, and Wright's
Native Son"
Part II: African American Writers and Race IssuesChapter 5: "The Federal Writers' Project in Chicago and Its Impact on the Second Chicago Renaissance"
Chapter 6: "Wright's
The Long Dream as Racial and Sexual Discourse" -- Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter 7: "Frank Marshall Davis of Chicago and the Young Barack Obama of Hawaii"
Chapter 8: "Landscapes of the Imagination: Clarence Major, Leon Forest, and the Black Chicago Renaissance"
Chapter 9: "
The Intuitionist and
The Underground Railroad: Colson Whitehead's Coping with Race Issues"
Part III: Transnational and Crosscultural Visions in African American Postmodernism
Chapter 10: "The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man"
Chapter 11: "Wright and Transnationalism: A Reading of
Pagan Spain"
Chapter 12: "Ishmael Reed's
Mumbo Jumbo: A Reading through Confucianism"
Chapter 13: "Ishmael Reed's
Japanese By Spring: A Satire on the Western View of Japanese Culture"
Chapter 14: "'All Narratives Are Lies, Man, an Illusion': Buddhism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism in Charles Johnson's
Middle Passage and
Dreamer"
Chapter 15: "African Legacy and Chicago Politics in Barack Obama's
Dreams from My Father"
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Info autore
Yoshinobu Hakutani teaches in the English department at Kent State University in Ohio, USA, where he is also a University Distinguished Scholar.
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This new monograph explores the literature of this pivotal period and some of it's most influential works and authors, from Theodore Dreiser in the late 1800's to Richard Wright through the mid 1900's.
