The Life of Langston Hughes: 1941-67 - I Dream a World Vol 2 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Life of Langston Hughes: 1941-67 - I Dream a World Vol 2 Book

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; 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.Read More

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    The first volume of Arnold Rampersad's ^IThe Life of Langston Hughes^R received enormous praise. Michael Harper hailed it in ^IThe Boston Globe^R as "an exquisite orchestration of the fully lived life"; Alice Walker called it "a book I have waited half a lifetime for"; and John Gross declared in ^IThe New York Times^R that "Rampersad [leaves] you eager to see what he makes of the rest of the story." Now we have just that: the second and final volume of Rampersad's epic biography of black

  • 0195061691
  • 9780195061697
  • Arnold Rampersad
  • 14 December 1989
  • Oxford University Press Inc, USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 528
  • New Ed
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