Letters from Langston : from the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and beyond

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Label

Letters from Langston : from the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and beyond

Title remainder

from the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and beyond

Statement of responsibility

edited by Evelyn Louise Crawford and MaryLouise Patterson ; with a foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley

Creator

• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967,
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967,

Contributor

• Crawford, Evelyn Louise,
• Patterson, MaryLouise, 1943-
• Crawford, Evelyn Louise,
• Patterson, MaryLouise, 1943-

Author

• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967,
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967,

Editor

• Crawford, Evelyn Louise,
• Patterson, MaryLouise, 1943-
• Patterson, MaryLouise, 1943-
• Crawford, Evelyn Louise,

Subject

• Authors, American
• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Correspondence
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Correspondence
• Personal correspondence
• Personal correspondence
• Records and correspondence
• 1900 - 1999
• African American authors
• African American authors -- Correspondence
• African American authors -- Correspondence

Genre

• Personal correspondence
• Records and correspondence
• Correspondence

Language

eng

Summary

"One of the greatest American writers, Langston Hughes 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 invaluable collection of newly published letters between Hughes and four confidantes sheds 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 of correspondence patches together stories of friends and family living in an era of uncertainty and their visions of an idealized world--one without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Correspondence., Selections
• Correspondence., Selections

Cataloging source

CU-S/DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography