The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 2; Poems 1941-1950 - Hardcover

Hughes, Langston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826213405 ISBN 13: 9780826213402

Verlag: University of Missouri Press, 2001

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Book by Hughes Langston

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"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature... a powerful interpreter of the American experience... His poems are as vital as ever." - Philadelphia Inquirer"

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Volume 2 includes the books Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943), Fields of Wonder (1947), and One-Way Ticket (1948). Starting around 1940, Hughes turned away from radical socialism toward strong support for the national war effort; as a poet, he resumed his experimentation in the blues, as Shakespeare in Harlem briliantly demonstrates. With this change in political emphasis came a renewed commitment to the achievement of civil rights for blacks, which Jim Crow's Last Stand vigorously asserts. In contrast, Fields of Wonder was Hughes's only book devoted entirely to lyric verse; but the next volume, One-Way Ticket, restored the balance that was essential to his creative expression as a poet.

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• Verlag: University of Missouri Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0826213405
• ISBN 13: 9780826213402
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296
• Herausgeber: Rampersad Arnold