Dawahare, Anthony. 'Langston Hughes's radical poetry and the "end of race",' MELUS 23: 3, pp. 21-41. (Fall 1998).
According to the author, Hughes' radical poetry spanning the years 1932-1938 has largely been left out of anthologies and scholarly attention. Hughes himself began to repress this part of his history in 1940 in his autobiography, though it came back to haunt him in the McCarthy era. This poetry tends to be dismissed by scholars as either lacking in aesthetic qualities or "because they fail to express the 'essential identity' of the black American." [Rampersad] Furthermore, Hughes's internationalism of this period contradicts whatever image of Hughes as a nationalist people might have. The author finds this neglect regrettable, -------------- See also: "<http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/hughes-christ.html>Goodbye Christ" by Langston Hughes Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Writing of Langston Hughes. Edited and with an introd. by Faith Berry; foreword by Saunders Redding. New York: L. [Lawrence] Hill, 1973. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
