Postmodernity and cross-culturalism / edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani.

Other author Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2002.
Description214 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Literature, Modern--20th century. --History and criticism.

Contents No place I was meant to be: postmodern Japan in Haruki Murakami's fiction / Celeste Loughman -- Huck Finn and America in Kenzaburo Oe / Shoji Goto -- Richard Wright's Pagan Spain and cross-cultural discourse / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Rushdie's Midnight's children, meditation, and the postmodern conception of history / McKay Jenkins -- "Three meals a day and the fun of it": existential hunger and the Magnificent/Seven/Samurai / Shawn St. Jean -- On making things Korean: western drama and local tradition in Please turn off the lights / Jinhee Kim -- Linguistic conservatism, national identity, and the postcolonial Indian novel / Ajanta Dutt -- "Japan has become the sign": identity and history in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Nicole Cooley -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Emerson, Lacan, and Zen: transcendental and postmodern conceptions of the eastern subject / Robert Samuels -- North American versions of Haibun and postmodern American culture / Bruce Ross.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001033627
ISBN0838639089 (alk. paper)