Description
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku’s various global developments, demonstrating the form’s complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present.
The sixteen chapters are carefully organized into categories that reflect the salient areas of practice and study: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, and The Future of Global Haiku. An insightful introduction surveys haiku’s influence beyond Japan and frames the collection historically and culturally, questioning commonly held assumptions about haiku and laying the groundwork for new ways of seeing the form. Haiku’s elusiveness, its resistance to definition, is partly what keeps it so relevant today, and this book traces the many ways in which this global verse form has evolved.
The Routledge Global Haiku Reader ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and historically informed manner for a new generation of readers and writers and will appeal to students and researchers in Asian studies, literary studies, comparative literature, creative writing, and cultural studies
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
List of Permissions
Acknowledgments
Introduction
JAMES SHEA
I Haiku in Transit
1 Beyond the Haiku Moment: Bashō, Buson, and Modern Haiku Myths
HARUO SHIRANE
2 Hearn, Bickerton, Hubbell: Translation and Definition
HIROAKI SATO
3 Reading an Evening Breeze: Buson’s Hokku in Translation
JAMES SHEA
II Haiku and Social Consciousness
4 A Second-Class Art: On Contemporary Haiku
TAKEO KUWABARA
5 From the 2.26 Incident to the Atomic Bombs: Haiku During the Asia-Pacific War
HIROAKI SATOx Contents
6 New Rising Haiku: The Evolution of Modern Japanese Haiku and the Haiku Persecution Incident
YŪKI ITŌ
7 Translations and Migrations of the Poetic Diary: Roy Kiyooka’s Wheels
JUDITH HALEBSKY
III Haiku and Experimentation
8 Ezra Pound, Yone Noguchi, and Imagism
YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI
9 Haiku as a Western Genre: Fellow-Traveler of Modernism
JAN WALSH HOKENSON
10 Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival
KAREN JACKSON FORD
11 The Disjunctive Dragonfly: A Study of Disjunctive Method and Definitions in Contemporary English-Language Haiku
RICHARD GILBERT
IV The Future of Global Haiku
12 Non-Japanese Haiku Today
GRANT CALDWELL
13 One Hundred Bridges, One Hundred Traditions in Haiku
CHARLES TRUMBULL
14 In the Shade of the Cherry Blossoms: The Reception of Haiku in Post-Soviet Russia
CÉCILE ROUSSELET
15 From Haiku to the Short Poem: Bridging the Divide
PHILIP ROWLAND
16 Future of World Haiku
BAN’YA NATSUISHI
V Afterword
Afterword
ANITA PATTERSON
Bibliography
Index
