East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison

by Yoshinobu Hakutani

Book Overview

This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists explored Eastern philosophies and arts. Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demonstrates the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826221823
• ISBN13: 9780826221827
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"