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Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival

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Karen Jackson Ford
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 333–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-005
Published: 01 June 2009
...Karen Jackson Ford Ford's essay investigates the post–World War II haiku boom in the United States with particular attention to how haiku has served different projects of national identity. These diverse projects share an inclination to respond in haiku to the United States' troubled history...
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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 177–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-070
Published: 01 March 2008
... American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku . By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 251 pp. Cloth, $41.95; compact disc, $9.95. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature . By John K. Young...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 189–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056717
Published: 01 March 2020
... of Classic and Modern Haiku . By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2019. xxvii, 193 pp. Cloth, $95.00; e-book, $90.00. Moving from the origins of Japanese haiku to Jack Kerouac’s contribution to the form, this monograph contextualizes Kerouac’s Book of Haikus (2003) in a broader...
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Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison

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Etsuko Taketani
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 895–897.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917440
Published: 01 December 2019
... and Pound), 7 (Wright), 8 (Kerouac), and 13 (Wright, Sanchez, and Emanuel) offers the reader a fascinating picture of the haiku, a Japanese poetry form of seventeen syllables, which had a significant bearing on imagism, jazz, the Beat generation, and beyond. Hakutani argues, “The most influential East-West...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 213–220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865367
Published: 01 March 2015
... scholars of 1930s literature focus on poverty, labor, and radicalism, Haytock’s study reminds us that the middle and upper classes are still very much present and ripe for a critical discussion. Richard Wright and Haiku. By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2014. 216 pp...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 467–473.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587802
Published: 01 June 2012
...: Perspectives on His Haiku. Ed. Jianqing Zheng. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2011. xx, 202 pp. $55.00. Attempting to garner more critical recognition for Wright’s haiku, this essay collection focuses on Wright’s “poetic talent” and “its importance in African American literature.” Individual...
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Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry

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Avery Slater
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 205–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575035
Published: 01 June 2023
... of mathematically analogous forms. We find similar musings in the writings on “Computer Haiku” ( 1968 ) by Margaret Masterman. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Masterman composed computer-generated haikus and mechanical thesauruses during her time directing the Cambridge Language Research Unit. Masterman’s...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 219–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541103
Published: 01 March 2012
..., and other modern and postmodern black American writers, with an attention to literary genealogies, form and genre (especially black authors’ use of Japanese haiku form), and expressions of particular philosophies. Thematically, it focuses on important minor characters and events...
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Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation

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N. Katherine Hayles
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575063
Published: 01 June 2023
..., like a lone cowboy on the prairie, taking in all that’s new between land and sky, including everything about human nature and societies” (McEwan 2019 : 193). As further testimony to his ability to learn as well as have feelings, Adam begins to write haikus about his love for Miranda. He even...
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The Origins of the American Detective Story; Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana(o) Identity; True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-074
Published: 01 March 2008
... Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth- Century African American Fiction. By James W. Coleman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku...
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Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans; Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race; Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 167–169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-066
Published: 01 March 2008
... Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth- Century African American Fiction. By James W. Coleman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku...
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Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America; Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 170–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-067
Published: 01 March 2008
... Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku. By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 251 pp. Cloth, $41.95; compact disc, $9.95. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. By John K. Young. Jackson: Univ. Press...
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860; To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 172–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-068
Published: 01 March 2008
... Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth- Century African American Fiction. By James W. Coleman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku...
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Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade; Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870–1920

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 175–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-069
Published: 01 March 2008
... Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku. By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 251 pp. Cloth, $41.95; compact disc, $9.95. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. By John K. Young. Jackson: Univ. Press...
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American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age; Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape; From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 180–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-071
Published: 01 March 2008
... Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth- Century African American Fiction. By James W. Coleman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku...
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Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival; Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 183–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-072
Published: 01 March 2008
... Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku. By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 251 pp. Cloth, $41.95; compact disc, $9.95. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. By John K. Young. Jackson: Univ. Press...
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American Indian Literary Nationalism; Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 185–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-073
Published: 01 March 2008
... Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku. By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 251 pp. Cloth, $41.95; compact disc, $9.95. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. By John K. Young. Jackson: Univ. Press...
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The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England; Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era

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Peter West
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 831–833.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-040
Published: 01 December 2008
... famous epiphany on Ktaadn, even though the essays often work against this apparent privileging of Thoreau to suggest new sites for ecocritical analysis: from toxic New Jersey swamps to pastoral lynching sites; from Japanese haiku in World War II intern- ment camps to Asian American and Native...
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Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature; The Transcendentalists

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Peter Carafiol
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 833–835.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-041
Published: 01 December 2008
... famous epiphany on Ktaadn, even though the essays often work against this apparent privileging of Thoreau to suggest new sites for ecocritical analysis: from toxic New Jersey swamps to pastoral lynching sites; from Japanese haiku in World War II intern- ment camps to Asian American and Native...
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The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives; Women and Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity; “Whole Oceans Away”: Melville and the Pacific

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Hugh Egan
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 836–838.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-042
Published: 01 December 2008
... of Thoreau to suggest new sites for ecocritical analysis: from toxic New Jersey swamps to pastoral lynching sites; from Japanese haiku in World War II intern- ment camps to Asian American and Native American perspectives on land- scape. Robert Hayashi reveals how writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston...
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