Postmodernity and Cross-culturalismYoshinobu Hakutani Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2002 - 214 pages This collection of eleven essays concerns postmodernity in cross-culturalism, a contiguous literary movement from modernity in East-West literary criticism. Most of the contributions address particular cross-cultural relations such as postcolonialism in Indian literature and paganism in Spanish culture. The writers and critics discussed range from Emerson, Twain, and Lacan to Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker. |
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Huck Finn and America in Kenzaburo Oe | 31 |
Richard Wrights Pagan Spain and CrossCultural Discourse | 43 |
Rushdies Midnights Children Meditation and the Postmodern Conception of History | 62 |
Three Meals a Day and the Fun of It Existential Hunger and the MagnificentSevenSamurai | 76 |
On Making Things Korean Western Drama and Local Tradition in Please Turn Off the Lights | 88 |
Linguistic Conservatism National Identity and the Postcolonial Indian Novel | 106 |
Japan Has Become the Sign Identity and History in Theresa Hak Kyung Chas Dictee | 117 |
Private Voice and Buddhist Enlightenment in Alice Walkers The Color Purple | 144 |
Emerson Lacan and Zen Transcendental and Postmodern Conceptions of the Eastern Subject | 157 |
North American Versions of Haibun and Postmodern American Culture | 168 |
Contributors | 201 |
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Page 9 - The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak.