Which Sin to Bear? - Couverture souple

Chinitz, David E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0190623969 ISBN 13 : 9780190623968

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Which Sin To Bear? mines Langston Hughes's creative work, newspaper columns, letters, and unpublished papers to reveal a writer who faced a daunting array of dicey questions and intimidating obstacles, and whose triumphs and occasional missteps are a fascinating and telling part of his legacy. David E. Chinitz explores Hughes's efforts to negotiate the problems of identity and ethics he faced as an African American professional writer and intellectual, tracing his early efforts to fashion himself as an "authentic" black poet of the Harlem Renaissance and his later imagining of a new and more inclusive understanding of authentic blackness. He also examines Hughes's lasting yet self-critical commitment to progressive politics in the mid-century years and shows how, in spite of ambivalence-and, at times, anguish-Hughes was forced to engage in ethical compromises to achieve his personal and social goals.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David E. Chinitz is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. His publications include T.S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide and, most recently, A Companion to Modernist Poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190623969
• ISBN 13: 9780190623968
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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