Langston Hughes /
As the first black author in America to make his living exclusively by writing, Langston Hughes inspired a generation of writers and activists. One of the pioneers of jazz poetry, Hughes led the Harlem Renaissance, while Martin Luther King invoked his signature metaphor of dreaming in his speeches.I...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2020.
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| Series: | Critical lives (London, England)
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Motherless Child, 1901-19
- 2 I, Too, am America, 1919-24
- 3 A Bone of Contention, 1924-30
- 4 In the USSR, 1930-33
- 5 Let America Be America Again, 1933-40
- 6 Aimee B. Simple, 1940-45
- 7 F. B. Eyes, 1945-50
- 8 Montage of a Dream Deferred, 1950-53
- 9 Seeing Red, 1953-60
- 10 Bright Tomorrows, 1960-62
- 11 I Dream a World, 1962-7
- Epilogue