Langston Hughes and the South African Drum generation

Name: Langston Hughes and the South African Drum generation
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780230102934

199 pages2010Palgrave MacmillanISBN 9780230102934

Correspondence American Authors Drum (Johannesburg, South Africa)African American authors South African Authors Hughes, langston, 1902-1967 LITERARY CRITICISM American General Literary studies: from c 1900 -.Literary studies: poetry & poets Literature

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In 1953 African-American poet Langston Hughes began corresponding with several South African writers variously affiliated with the legendary Drum magazine. Published here for the first time, these letters provide an invaluable glimpse into the growing repression of South African apartheid and the slow but painful progress of the American Civil Rights movement. Revealing a fascinating set of transatlantic friendships between a titan of American letters and a group of writers that includes Peter Clarke, Todd Matshikiza, Bloke Modisane, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Peter Abrahams, and Richard Rive, this volume highlights Hughes's enormous influence on the rise of English-language literature by black and mixed-race writers in South Africa.

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Pages: 199
ISBN: 9780230102934

About Unknown Author

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Writer, editor, lecturer Langston Hughes achieved fame as a poet during the burgeoning of the arts known as the Harlem Renaissance, but those who label him "a Harlem Renaissance poet" have restricted his fame to only one genre and decade. In addition to his work as a poet, Hughes was a novelist, columnist, playwright, and essayist, and though he is most closely associated with Harlem, his world travels influenced his writing in a profound way. Langston Hughes followed the example of Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of his early poetic influences, to become the second African American to earn a living as a writer. His long and distinguished career produced volumes of diverse genres and inspired the work of countless other African American writers. --From Gale Cengage Learning Free resources