Vera M. Kutzinski (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee), Anthony Reed (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
Langston Hughes was among the most influential African American writers of the twentieth century. He inspired and challenged readers from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe, South America, Asia, the African continent, and beyond. To study Langston Hughes is to develop a new sense of the twentieth century. He was more than a man of his times; emerging as a key member of the Harlem Renaissance, his poems, plays, journalism, translations, and prose fiction documented and shaped the world around him. The twenty-nine essays in this volume engage with his at times conflicting investments in populist...
Langston Hughes was among the most influential African American writers of the twentieth century. He inspired and challenged readers from Harlem to th...
