Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the by Langston Hughes,Evelyn Louise Crawford,MaryLouise

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By Langston Hughes,Evelyn Louise Crawford,MaryLouise Patterson,Robin D.G. Kelley

Langston Hughes, considered one of America's maximum writers, was once an innovator of jazz poetry and a pacesetter of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and performs resonate largely this present day. obtainable, own, and inspirational, Hughes’s poems painting the African American neighborhood in fight within the context of a turbulent sleek usa and a emerging black freedom flow. This vital quantity of letters among Hughes and 4 leftist confidants sheds shiny gentle on his lifestyles and politics.

Letters from Langston starts in 1930 and ends presently earlier than his dying in 1967, offering a window right into a distinct, self-created international the place Hughes lived comfortable. This unique quantity collects the tales of Hughes and his buddies in an period of uncertainty and divulges their visions of an idealized world—one with no starvation, warfare, racism, and sophistication oppression.

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