TY - BOOK AU - Scott,Jonathan ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Socialist joy in the writing of Langston Hughes AV - PS3515.U274 Z78 2006eb U1 - 818/.5209 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Columbia PB - University of Missouri Press KW - Hughes, Langston, KW - Socialism in literature KW - Socialism and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - African Americans in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-244) and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10188298 ER -