Dec 28, 2009
The Life of Langston Hughes | The Life of Langston Hughes
At a glance:
- Author: Arnold Rampersad
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1941-1967
- Setting: Harlem, California, Europe, Africa, and the
Caribbean
- Principal Characters: Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Toy Harper, Emerson Harper, Noël Sullivan, Carl Van Vechten
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Africa or Africans, Communism or communists, Politics, Blacks, France or French people, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, 1940’s, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem, Liberalism
- Locales: Africa, Caribbean, California, Harlem, NY, Europe
In the first volume of his biography of Langston Hughes,
(subtitled I, Too, Sing America, 1986), Arnold Rampersad
traced Hughes's boyhood roots in Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio,
through his early career in the 1920's (as a key figure in
the Harlem Renaissance, along with other black writers such as
Claude McKay and Countee Cullen), into the 1930's and his
travels to the Soviet Union and his work as a correspondent
during the Spanish Civil War.
Volume 2 picks up this story in a crucial year, 1941. Hughes
had been writing and publishing for twenty years, but at
thirty-nine he...
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