I Wonder as I Wander (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Langston Hughes
- First Published: 1956
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: Cuba; Haiti; the Soviet Union; Japan; Spain; Harlem, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; and San Francisco, California
- Principal Characters: Langston Hughes, Zell Ingram, Mary McLeod Bethune, Radcliffe Lucas, Noel Sullivan, Arthur Koestler, Yusef Nichan, Nicolás Guillén
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Traveling or travelers, Racism, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, 1930’s, Lectures or lecturing, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Harlem, NY, Haiti, Soviet Union, Spain, San Francisco, CA, Cleveland, OH, Cuba, Japan
Form and Content
In I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey, Langston Hughes recounts his travels during the 1930’s through the United States, Mexico, and Cuba and through Asia and Europe. Identifying himself as an African American, Hughes explores color lines and the effects of racism, but he also explores the surrounding issues of history, socioeconomics, and culture. The eight chapters of Hughes’s four-hundred-page autobiography are arranged thematically, chronologically, and geographically. Each chapter is divided into a series of vignettes, with a...
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