| Description |
xv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
FlashPoints |
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FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-401) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Langston Hughes: Poet-Translator and Black Radical Internationalist -- Writer's Block: Unmuzzling Racial Discourse in Cuba -- Reborn in Translation: Conversing with a Hughes Born Abroad -- Talk about Mothers: Translating the Modernist Folk -- Hughes Translates Pedroso: Proletarian and Social Lyrics -- Moscow, Martinique, and Me: Freedom Dreaming and World Making -- Translating Mayakovsky and Aragon: The Poetics of Dialectical Revolt and Intertextual Subjectivity -- Langston and Lorca: Envisioning a New Pan-Africanism -- Conclusion: A Tapestry of Words. |
| Summary |
"New World Maker reappraises Langston Hughes's political poetry, reading the writer's leftist works in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Poetry -- Translating.
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Poetry -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. (OCoLC)fst00049863
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Poetry -- Black authors.
(OCoLC)fst01067705
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Poetry -- Translating.
(OCoLC)fst01067745
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Kelley, Robin D. G., writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780810144422 (paperback) |
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0810144425 (paperback) |
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9780810144439 (cloth) |
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0810144433 (cloth) |
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9780810144446 (ebook) |
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