1st Edition

Daisaku Ikeda, Transnationalism, and American Literature Dialogues of the Heart

Edited By Anita Patterson Copyright 2026
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

Daisaku Ikeda, Transnationalism, and American Literature: Dialogues of the Heart examines the writings of Nichiren Buddhist philosopher, poet, and peacebuilder Daisaku Ikeda (1928–2023), focusing on how American literature and transnationalism are integral to the development of his Buddhist philosophy and practices in peacebuilding, religion, and education. Each chapter explores his... Read more

Daisaku Ikeda's Dialogues of the Heart: An Introduction

Anita Patterson

 

“In the Palace of My Heart”: The Presence of the American Renaissance in Daisaku Ikeda’s Lyric, Pragmatic Poetry of Peace

Ronald A. Bosco

 

A New Errand Bearer: Daisaku Ikeda’s Poetic Response to Walt Whitman and His Quest for Peace

Kenneth M. Price

 

The Poem as Dependent Origination: Daisaku Ikeda, Walt Whitman, and Reader Response

Jim Garrison

 

“The World Globes Itself in a Drop of Dew”: Emerson’s and Ikeda’s Short Poems

Sarah Wider

 

Understanding Daisaku Ikeda’s New Renaissance: An Apprenticeship in Transnational Reading

Giulia Pellizzato

 

The Dance of the Buddha and a Poetics of Peace in Daisaku Ikeda and Muriel Rukeyser

J. Ashley Foster

 

Daisaku Ikeda’s Literary Selfhood in the Justice of Becoming: Toward the Second American Renaissance and the Dawn of a New Global Age

Jason Goulah

 

The New Human Revolution: Daisaku Ikeda’s Engagement with African and African American Poetry

Masumi H. Odari

 

The Dialectics of Nonviolence: Daisaku Ikeda, Buddhist Empathy, and African American Liberation Thought

Ikea Johnson

Biography

Anita Patterson is Professor of English at Boston University, USA. She is the author of From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest and Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms. She has also contributed a chapter to Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context.