Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature: West Meets East

Part I: Essays on Poetry Richard Wright's Haiku, Zen, and the African - Yoshinobu Hakutani Richard Wright's Haiku, Japanese Poetics, and Classical Chinese Poetry - Jianqing Zheng Wordsworthian Nature Poetry, Ashanti Culture, and Richard Wright's Haiku: This Other World - Peter Landino Cross-Cultural Poetics: Sonia Sanchez's Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums - Yoshinobu Hakutani Jean Toomer Revisited in James Emanuel's Post-Modernist Jazz Haiku - Whatley Smith Part II: Essays on Ideology The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man - Yoshinobu Hakutani West, East, Africa: Richard Wright's Native Son and Classic Movie Monsters - Mera Moore Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo through Confucianism - Yupei Zhou "A Beautiful Black Butterfly": Eastern Aesthetics and Postmodernism in Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring - Preston Park Cooper "All Narratives Are Lies, Man, an Illusion": Buddhism and Postmodernism versus Racism in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and Dreamer - Preston Park Cooper