David E Chinitz

Which Sin to Bear?

Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes

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Produktbeschreibung

Which Sin To Bear? mines Langston Hughes's creative work, newspaper columns, letters, and unpublished papers to reveal a writer who faced a daunting array of dicey questions and intimidating obstacles, and whose triumphs and occasional missteps are a fascinating and telling part of his legacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190623968
• ISBN-10: 0190623969
• Artikelnr.: 47863506

Autorenporträt

David E. Chinitz is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. His publications include T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide and, most recently, A Companion to Modernist Poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Becoming Langston Hughes
2. Producing Authentic Blackness
3. Authenticity in the Blues Poetry
4. The Ethics of Compromise
5. Simple Goes to Washington: Hughes and the McCarthy Committee
6. "Speak to me now of compromise": Hughes and the Specter of Booker T.
Appendix A: Hughes's Senate Testimony in Executive Session
Appendix B: Hughes's Public Testimony
Bibliography
Index