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Item Details
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LANGSTON HUGHES AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN DRUM GENERATION
THE CORRESPONDENCE |
| By: |
Shane Graham (Editor), John Walters (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£61.69 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230109861 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230109865 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
20 July, 2010 |
| Description: |
This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism.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. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1953 African-American poet Langston Hughes began corresponding with several South African writers variously affiliated with the legendary Drum magazine. Published here for the first time, these letters provide an invaluable glimpse into the growing repression of South African apartheid and the slow but painful progress of the American Civil Rights movement. Revealing a fascinating set of transatlantic friendships between a titan of American letters and a group of writers that includes Peter Clarke, Todd Matshikiza, Bloke Modisane, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Peter Abrahams, and Richard Rive, this volume highlights Hughes's enormous influence on the rise of English-language literature by black and mixed-race writers in South Africa. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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