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Rampersad, one of our foremost African-American scholars, is an apt biographer for Hughes (1902-67), our greatest black poet. I, Too, Sing America (volume 1) covers the years during which Hughes produced his best work and was most politically active; I Dream a World (volume 2) chronicles his artistic decline due to overwork in= response to perpetual financial difficulties. Both volumes are psychologically astute, critically penetrating and masterful in their intermingling of Hughes' story with a chronicle of the enormous changes that took place in black America during his lifetime.
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Book Description
February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer.
In young adulthood Hughes possessed a nomadic but dedicated spirit that led him from Mexico to Africa and the Soviet Union to Japan, and countless other stops around the globe. Associating with political activists, patrons, and fellow artists, and drawing inspiration from both Walt Whitman and
the vibrant Afro-American culture, Hughes soon became the most original and revered of black poets. In the first volume's Afterword, Rampersad looks back at the significant early works Hughes produced, the genres he explored, and offers a new perspective on Hughes's lasting literary influence.
Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new generation of readers entrance to the life and mind of
one of the twentieth century's greatest artists.
The Life of Langston Hughes : Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941),Arnold Rampersad,Oxford University Press, USA,0195146425,1902-1967,20th century,African American poets,American - African American & Black,Biography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Business & Economics,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,Hughes, Langston,,Organizational Behavior,People of Color,Poets, American,American English,Biography & Autobiography / People of Color,Biography: general,English,Literature/English | American Literature | African American,Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -,Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -,USA
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