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Title Writing as Enlightenment : Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-First Century / edited by John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff ; foreword by Jan Willis
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages)
Series SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture
SUNY series in Buddhism and American culture.
Contents The transmission of Zen as dual discourse: Shaku Soen and Okakura Kakuzo / Jane Falk -- Black American Buddhism: history and representation / Linda Furgerson Selzer -- Some of the dharma: the human, the heavenly, and the "real work" in the writings of Gary Snyder / Allan Johnston -- "Listen and relate": Buddhism, Daoism, and chance in the poetry and poetics of Jackson Mac Low / Jonathan Stalling -- A deeper kind of truth: Buddhist themes in Don DeLillo's Libra / Gary Storhoff -- "The present moment happening": a conversation with Gary Snyder about Danger on peaks / Julia Martin -- Embodied mindfulness: Charles Johnson and Maxine Hong Kingston on Buddhism, race, and beauty / John Whalen-Bridge -- Poetry and practice at Naropa University / John Whalen-Bridge
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject American literature -- Buddhist authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- Buddhist influences
Buddhism and literature -- United States
Buddhism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Buddhism and literature
Buddhism in literature
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Whalen-Bridge, John, 1961-
Storhoff, Gary, 1947-
ISBN 9781461906360
1461906369
1438439210
9781438439211
Other Titles Buddhist American literature into the twenty-first century