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Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
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Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond

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Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes’s poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics.

Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window into a unique, self-created world where Hughes lived at ease. This distinctive volume collects the stories of Hughes and his friends in an era of uncertainty and reveals their visions of an idealized world—one without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression.
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Release dateFeb 1, 2016
ISBN9780520960862
Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
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Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes (1902-67) was born in Joplin, Missouri, was educated at Lincoln University, and lived for most of his life in New York City. He is best known as a poet, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays, and children's books. Among his works are two volumes of memoirs, The Big Sea and I Wonder as I Wander, and two collections of Simple stories, The Best of Simple and The Return of Simple.

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