Let America Be America Again
Conversations with Langston Hughes
$126.83
- Hardcover
362 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2022
Summary
Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes. This book captures the voice of a remarkable man, from his early days as a busboy in the 1920s, scribbling poems on hotel napkins, to his keynote address at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966. Through these texts, Hughes’s words further solidify the international reputation he built over five decades with his widely published p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192855046 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192855042 |
| Author: | Langston Hughes, Christopher C. De Santis |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 362 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 706g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 162mm x 240mm |
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Critics Review
Hughes attracted newspaper coverage wherever he performed, and this compendious volume includes many telling mini-interviews and profiles from his four decades in the public eye. * LRB *
The book will serve as a valuable resource to scholars seeking a new vantage point from which to reconsider Hughes’s ideas on art, politics, and racial and economic justice. * ALH Online Review, Series XL *
Langston Hughes
Christopher C. De Santis is Professor of English at Illinois State University, where he served as Graduate Program Director from 2009-2013 and Chair of the Department of English from 2013-2022. He is editor of Langston Hughes: A Documentary Volume; Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62; and two volumes in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes—Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs and Fight for Freedom and Other Writings on Civil Rights. His work has also appeared in African American Review, American Studies, CLA Journal, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Langston Hughes Review, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, The Southern Quarterly, and other publications.
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