Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism

by Hakutani, Yoshinobu

• ISBN13: 9780838639085
• ISBN10: 0838639089
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(10)
Yoshinobu Hakutani
No Place I Was Meant to Be: Postmodern Japan in Haruki Murakami's Fiction	17	(14)
Celeste Loughman
Huck Finn and America in Kenzaburo Oe	31	(12)
Shoji Goto
Richard Wright's Pagan Spain and Cross-Cultural Discourse	43	(19)
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Meditation, and the Postmodern Conception of History	62	(14)
McKay Jenkins
``Three Meals a Day and the Fun of It'': Existential Hunger and the Magnificent/Seven/Samurai	76	(12)
Shawn St. Jean
On Making Things Korean: Western Drama and Local Tradition in Please Turn Off the Lights	88	(18)
Jinhee Kim
Linguistic Conservatism, National Identity, and the Postcolonial Indian Novel	106	(11)
Ajanta Dutt
``Japan Has Become the Sign'': Identity and History in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee	117	(27)
Nicole Cooley
Private Voice and Buddhist Enlightenment in Alice Walker's The Color Purple	144	(13)
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Emerson, Lacan, and Zen: Transcendental and Postmodern Conceptions of the Eastern Subject	157	(11)
Robert Samuels
North American Versions of Haibun and Postmodern American Culture	168	(33)
Bruce Ross
Contributors	201	(4)
Index	205