1st Edition
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance Postmodern and Postcolonial Development
Introduction
Part I: Interactions of African and European American Writers
Chapter 1: "The Chicago Renaissance, Dreiser, and Wright’s Spatial Narrative" -- Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter 2: "Chicago as Metaphor in the Writings of Dreiser and Wright: Tracing the Literary Lineage" -- Mary Hricko
Chapter 3: "Dreiser’s ‘Nigger Jeff,’ Wright’s ‘Big Boy Leaves Home,’ and Lynching" -- Michael Sanders
Chapter 4: "Chicago in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, James Farrell’s Studs Lonigan, and Wright’s Native Son" -- Robert Butler
Part II: African American Writers and Race Issues
Chapter 5: "The Federal Writers’ Project in Chicago and Its Impact on the Second Chicago Renaissance" -- Mary Hricko
Chapter 6: "Wright’s The Long Dream as Racial and Sexual Discourse" -- Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter 7: "Frank Marshall Davis of Chicago and the Young Barack Obama of Hawaii" -- Toru Kiuchi
Chapter 8: "Landscapes of the Imagination: Clarence Major, Leon Forest, and the Black Chicago Renaissance" -- Keith Byerman
Chapter 9: "The Intuitionist and The Underground Railroad: Colson Whitehead’s Coping with Race Issues" -- Preston Park Cooper
Part III: Transnational and Crosscultural Visions in African American Postmodernism
Chapter 10: "The Western and Eastern Thoughts of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man" -- Yoshinobu Hakutani
Chapter 11: "Wright and Transnationalism: A Reading of Pagan Spain" -- Mamoun F. Alzoubi
Chapter 12: "Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo: A Reading through Confucianism" -- Yupei Zhou
Chapter 13: "Ishmael Reed’s Japanese By Spring: A Satire on the Western View of Japanese Culture"-- Toru Kiuchi
Chapter 14: "‘All Narratives Are Lies, Man, an Illusion’: Buddhism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage and Dreamer" -- Preston Park Cooper
Chapter 15: "African Legacy and Chicago Politics in Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father" -- Babacar M’Baye
Synopses
Biography
Yoshinobu Hakutani teaches in the English department at Kent State University in Ohio, USA, where he is also a University Distinguished Scholar.
"This collection of essays on the Chicago Renaissance has something for just about everybody; it extends the scope of the literary and cultural period from Theodore Dreiser and Richard Wright all the way to Colson Whitehead and Barack Obama." Jerome Loving, Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University.
