Beschreibung:
This collection of ten critical essays is the first scholarly criticism of haiku by Sonia Sanchez. Her haiku, full of power and emotional voice for people, love, human nature, and African American experience, redefine haiku in English and African American poetic expression with her unique individuality.
This collection of ten critical essays is the first scholarly criticism of haiku by Sonia Sanchez, who has exemplified herself for six decades as a major figure in the Black Arts Movement, a central activist in civil rights and women’s movements, and an internationally-known writer in American literature. Sanchez’s haiku, as an integral and prominent part of contemporary African American poetry, have expressed not only her ideas of nature, beauty, and harmony but also her aesthetic experience of music, culture, and love. Aesthetically, this experience reflects a poetic mind which has helped the poet to shape or reimage her poetic spirit.
Introduction: Sonia Sanchez’s Poetic Spirit
John Zheng
“another life force”: Racial Violence and Collective Memory in Sonia Sanchez’s Haiku
Meta L. Schettler
“The Color of Your Song”: Sonia Sanchez’s African American Haiku as Cosmopolitan “Green” Poetry
Michio Arimitsu
“Some Beauty.…Some Love” and an Attitude: The Haiku of Sonia Sanchez
Richard A. Iadonisi
Constant Sky: Sonia Sanchez’s Haiku
Becky Thompson
Reading Sonia Sanchez’s Haiku as Racial Representation
Sally Michael Hanna
Reflections of the “Haiku Mind”: Formal Innovation in Sonia Sanchez’s Haiku Sequences
Ce Rosenow
A Writer’s Creative Mind: Sonia Sanchez’s Sonku
John Zheng
Celebratory and Defiant: Sonia Sanchez’s Ethnographic Haiku
John J. Han
The Gendered Blues in Sonia Sanchez’s Haiku
Tiffany Austin
Sonia Sanchez’s Haiku: From Origin to Development
Toru Kiuchi