Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond

by Langston Hughes

Evelyn Louise Crawford (Editor) and Marylouise Patterson (Editor)

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Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes' poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics. Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window into a unique, self-created world where Hughes lived at ease. This distinctive volume collects the stories of Hughes and his friends in an era of uncertainty and reveals their visions of an idealized world - one without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression.
  • ISBN10 0520960866
  • ISBN13 9780520960862
  • Publish Date 1 February 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 440
  • Language English