The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)

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April 11, 2011 Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

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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  • Hardcover: 176 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (April 11, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1617030228
  • ISBN-13: 978-1617030222
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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