A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes
1st Edition
Published on 4. December 2003
264 pages
978-0-19-972915-9 (ISBN)
Description
Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate, intelligent, and socially responsible art. In this volume, Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics to produce an interdisciplinary approach to the important historical and cultural elements reflected in Hughes's work. Their essays, all previously unpublished, place Hughes in the context of Harlem, his preferred geographical and spiritual home base, as well as the larger political, social, musical, and artistic milieu of his rapidly changing times. They examine Hughes's negotiation of his own moral and ethical ground in a complex, sometimes hostile world, and demonstrate the remarkable triumph of a sensitive, creative human being who refused to be overwhelmed by the forces of discrimination, pessimism, and bitterness that claimed so many writers of his generation. This volume, with its historical essays, brief biography, and illustrated chronology, provides a concise yet authoritative portrait of one of America's and the world's most beloved writers.
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Steven C. Tracy is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Hughes in Our Time
- Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: A Brief Biography
- HUGHES IN HIS TIME
- The Poet Speaks of Places: A Close Reading of Langston Hughes's Literary Use of Place
- Langston Hughes and Afro-American Vernacular Music
- Hughes and Twentieth-Century Genderracial Issues
- The Adventures of a Social Poet: Langston Hughes from the Popular Front to Black Power
- Illustrated Chronology
- Bibliographical Essay
- Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
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- S
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