Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature into the Twenty-first Century

SUNY Series in Buddhism and American Culture

by Jan Willis (Foreword), Gary Storhoff (Editor)

John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. His books include Norman Mailer's Later 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.

207 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2011

About the author

Janice Dean Willis, or Jan Willis is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she has taught since 1977; and the author of books on Tibetan Buddhism. She has been called influential by Time Magazine, Newsweek, and Ebony Magazine.

Reviews

[Jessica Zu · Rating 4 out of 5]

love Selzer's essay on Black American Buddhism: History and Representation!