...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 of...

... 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...

.... The Other World of Richard Wright: 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...

... portrayed. Whereas most 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...

... works of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed, 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...

... 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 of...

... Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African 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...

... 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 of...

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... 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 of...

... Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African 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...

...: 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. By Yoshinobu Hakutani...

... 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 of...

... 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 American perspectives 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 American perspectives on...

... 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 and David Mas Masumoto challenge privileged white musings 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 American perspectives 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 American perspectives on...

... 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 and David Mas Masumoto challenge privileged white musings on...

... references Thoreau’s 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...