The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World
by Arnold Rampersad
Publication Date: Jan 10, 2002
List Price: $39.95
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780195151619
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Parent Company: University of Oxford
Description of The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad
February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer.
The second volume in this masterful biography finds Hughes rooting himself in Harlem, receiving stimulation from his rich cultural surroundings. Here he rethought his view of art and radicalism, and cultivated relationships with younger, more militant writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Bakara. Rampersad’s Afterword to volume two looks further into his influence and how it expanded beyond the literary as a result of his love of jazz and blues, his opera and musical theater collaborations, and his participation in radio and television. In addition, Rempersad explores the controversial matter of Hughes’s sexuality and the possibility that, despite a lack of clear evidence, Hughes was homosexual.
Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University’s Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new generation of readers entrance to the life and mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists.
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