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The Other World of Richard Wright - Perspectives on His Haiku (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,627
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The Other World of Richard Wright - Perspectives on His Haiku (Hardcover): John Zheng

The Other World of Richard Wright - Perspectives on His Haiku (Hardcover)

John Zheng

Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

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"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.

General

Imprint: University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin: United States
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Release date: April 2011
First published: April 2011
Editors: John Zheng
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 978-1-61703-022-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN: 1-61703-022-8
Barcode: 9781617030222

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