New World Maker: Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes Volume 40

by Ryan James Kernan

Book Overview

In an ambitious reappraisal of Langston Hughes's work and legacy, Ryan James Kernan reads Hughes's political poetry in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora. Drawing on heretofore unearthed archival evidence, Kernan shows how Hughes mined his engagements with the poetics of Louis Aragon, Nicol?s Guill?n, Regino Pedroso, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Federico Garc?a Lorca, and L?opold S?dar Senghor, as well...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810144425
• ISBN13: 9780810144422
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.9"