Socialist joy in the writing of Langston Hughes [electronic resource] / Jonathan Scott.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.Description: xiv, 248 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 818/.5209 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3515.U274 Z78 2006eb
Online resources: Summary: "Explores Hughes's intellectual method and its relation to social activism. Examines his involvement with socialist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and contends that the goal of overthrowing white oppression produced a "socialist joy" expressed repeatedly in his later work, in spite of the anticommunist crusades of the cold war"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244) and index.

"Explores Hughes's intellectual method and its relation to social activism. Examines his involvement with socialist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and contends that the goal of overthrowing white oppression produced a "socialist joy" expressed repeatedly in his later work, in spite of the anticommunist crusades of the cold war"--Provided by publisher.

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