Literature and culture of the Chicago Renaissance : postmodern and postcolonial development / edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Illinois--Chicago--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature--European influences.

American literature--Oriental influences.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

African Americans.

Intellectual life.

United States.

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Intellectual life.

Chicago (Ill.)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.).

Chicago (Ill.)--In literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

Literature.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"The Chicago Renaissance has long been considered a less important literary movement for American modernism than the Harlem Renaissance. The Chicago Renaissance had its origin around the turn of the nineteenth century, from 1890 to 1910, gathered momentum in the 30s, and paved the way for the postmodern and postcolonial development in American literature ever since. Yoshinobu Hakutani aims to shed light on this seldom studied, yet pivotal period, by studying some of its most influential works and authors, from Theodore Dreiser in the late 1800's to Richard Wright through the mid 1900's." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Interactions of African and European American Writers p. 13

1 The Chicago Renaissance, Dreiser, and Wright's Spatial Narrative p. 15 / Yoshinobu Hakutani

2 Chicago as Metaphor in the Writings of Theodore Dreiser and Richard Wright: Tracing the Literary Lineage p. 40 / Mary Hricko

3 Theodore Dreiser's "Nigger Jeff," Richard Wright's "Big Boy Leaves Home," and Lynching p. 58 / Michael Sanders

4 Chicago in Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Farrell's Studs Lonigan, and Wright's Native Son p. 72 / Robert Butler

5 "Careful Candors": Gwendolyn Brooks, T. S. Eliot, and the Poetics of Social Critique p. 88 / Anita Patterson

Part II African American Writers and Race Issues p. 105

6 The Illinois Writers' Project and Its Impact on the Second Chicago Renaissance p. 107 / Mary Hricko

7 Wright's The Long Dream as Racial and Sexual Discourse p. 131 / Yoshinobu Hakutaui

8 Frank Marshall Davis of Chicago and the Young Barack Obama of Hawaii p. 148 / Tom Kiuchi

9 Landscapes of the Imagination: Clarence Major, Leon Forrest, and the Black Chicago Renaissance p. 166 / Keith Byerman

10 The Intuitionist and The Underground Railroad: Colson Whitehead Works on Race Issues p. 175 / Preston Park Cooper

Part III Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Postmodernism and Postcolonialism p. 201

11 Wright and Transnationalism: A Reading of Pagan Spain p. 203 / Mamoun F. Alzoubi

12 The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man p. 228 / Yoshinobu Hakutani

13 Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo: A Reading through Confucianism p. 245 / Yupei Zhou

14 Neo-HooDooism in Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring: Lost Boundary between Fact and Fiction p. 263 / Toru Kiuchi

15 "All narratives are lies, man, an illusion": Buddhism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and Dreamer p. 287 / Preston Park Cooper

16 African Legacy and Chicago Politics in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father p. 299 / Babacar M'Baye.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780367230173

0367230178

9780367246518

0367246511

OCLC:

1083465026