Laurie F. Leach

Langston Hughes

A Biography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chronicles the life of the twentieth-century African-American poet, writer, journalist, and leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance who incorporated African-American speech and culture into his poems and faced Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate committee.

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Produktdetails

• Greenwood Biographies
• Verlag: Greenwood Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780313324970
• ISBN-10: 0313324972
• Artikelnr.: 14098831

Autorenporträt

LAURIE F. LEACH is Associate Professor of English at Hawaii Pacific University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Series Forward Introduction Timeline of
Events Lonely Boy Class Poet The Lure of Harlem At Sea European Adventure
"Trying to Catch a Jazz Rhythm" Scaling the Racial Mountain Godmother on
Park Avenue The Mule Bone of Contention A Turn Toward Socialism Film
Project in Moscow Soviet Journey Uneasy in Carmel Adrift Under Fire
Fighting Hitler and Jim Crow "Red Tinged Poet" "Fooling Around with the
Theater" Facing Down McCarthy Hughes and the Freedom Movement Hughes Final
Years Notes Works Cited Selected Works by Hughes Recommended Reading