Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation - The Correspondence

Zusatztext "This is an intriguing and invaluable book. Graham and Walters have unearthed a trove of correspondence which! for many years to come! will be a touchstone for scholars of African-American and African literatures and cultures. The book offers a moving account of the emergence of a transnational dynamic of encouragement and practical support among African diasporic writers." - Rob Nixon! Rachel Carson Professor of English! University of Wisconsin-Madison Informationen zum Autor SHANE GRAHAM is Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, USA.  JOHN WATERS is Associate Instructor in the English Department at Indiana University, USA. Klappentext This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it. Zusammenfassung This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'Come On Here!' Bibliography/Further Reading 1953-1954 1955-1959 1960-1961 1962 1963-1967

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Introduction: 'Come On Here!' Bibliography/Further Reading 1953-1954 1955-1959 1960-1961 1962 1963-1967

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"This is an intriguing and invaluable book. Graham and Walters have unearthed a trove of correspondence which, for many years to come, will be a touchstone for scholars of African-American and African literatures and cultures. The book offers a moving account of the emergence of a transnational dynamic of encouragement and practical support among African diasporic writers." - Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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• Authors: Shane Walters Graham
• Assisted by: Graham (Editor), S Graham (Editor), S. Graham (Editor), Walters (Editor), Walters (Editor), J. Walters (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2010
• EAN: 9781349287499
• ISBN: 978-1-349-28749-9
• No. of pages: 207
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, World Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature Collection, Postcolonial/World Literature, America—Literatures, North American Literature, African Literature, African Languages, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Africa;African;America;bibliography;poet