Whalen-Bridge / Storhoff Writing as Enlightenment

Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3921-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Buddhism and American Culture

Explores the prevalence of Buddhist ideas in American literature since the 1970s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whalen-Bridge, John

Storhoff, Gary

Weitere Mitwirkende

Willis, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Foreword
Jan Willis

Introduction
John Whalen-Bridge & Gary Storhoff

PART I. Widening the Stream: Literature as Transmission

1. The Transmission of Zen as Dual Discourse: Shaku Soen and Okakura Kakuzo
Jane Falk

2. Black American Buddhism: History and Representation
Linda Furgerson Selzer

PART II. The New Lamp: Buddhism and Contemporary Writers

3. Some of the Dharma: The Human, the Heavenly, and the “Real Work” in the Writings of Gary Snyder
Allan Johnston

4. “Listen and Relate”: Buddhism, Daoism, and Chance in the Poetry and Poetics of Jackson Mac Low
Jonathan Stalling

5. A Deeper Kind of Truth: Buddhist Themes in Don DeLillo’s Libra
Gary Storhoff

PART III. Speaking as Enlightenment: Interviews with Buddhist Writers

6. “The Present Moment Happening”: A Conversation with Gary Snyder about Danger on Peaks
Julia Martin

7. Embodied Mindfulness: Charles Johnson and Maxine Hong Kingston on Buddhism, Race, and Beauty
John Whalen-Bridge

8. Poetry and Practice at Naropa University
John Whalen-Bridge

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. His books include Norman Mailer's Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest. Gary Storhoff is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Stamford. He is the author of Understanding Charles Johnson. Together they are coeditors of The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature and American Buddhism as a Way of Life, both also published by SUNY Press.