Langston Hughes

by Rummel, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780791083703
• ISBN10: 0791083705
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub

Summary

Langston Hughes was only 19 when his first poem was published in a major magazine. Less than three years later, he was one of the leading voices in the artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, which transformed American culture in the early part of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vi
At the Crossroads	p. 1
A Lonely Youth	p. 10
The Harlem Renaissance	p. 20
An African Adventure	p. 31
In Vogue	p. 41
A Fall From Grace	p. 55
Radical Times	p. 66
Travels and Travails	p. 75
The Wandering Poet	p. 86
Chronology	p. 97
Further Reading	p. 99
Index	p. 100
About the Contributors	p. 108
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Excerpts

This writer and poet wrote about discrimination and disillusionment with American society and drew upon all aspects of black life, eventually becoming the leading poet of the black world.