Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826217168 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Over a forty-six-year career, Langston Hughes experimented with black folk expressive culture, creating an enduring body of extraordinary imaginative and critical writing. Riding the crest of African American creative energy from the Harlem Renaissance to the onset of Black Power, he commanded an artistic prowess that survives in the legacy he bequeathed to a younger generation of writers, including award winners Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and Amiri Baraka. Montage of a Dream extends and deepens previous scholarship, multiplying the ways in which Hughes’s diverse body of writing can be explored. The contributors, including such distinguished scholars as Steven Tracy, Trudier Harris, Juda Bennett, Lorenzo Thomas, a
"Any serious Hughes scholar will embrace and celebrate this diverse collection of essays. It provides an interesting and helpful new platform from which to launch the future generations of Hughesian scholarship.”––Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, author of Not So Simple: The “Simple” Stories by Langston Hughes