A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes (Historical Guides to American Authors)
by Steven C. Tracy, Steven Carl Tracy
Category: Literary Criticism

Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate, intelligent, and socially responsible art. In this volume, Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics to produce an interdisciplinary approach to the important historical and cultural elements reflected in Hughes's work. Their essays, all previously unpublished, place Hughes in the context of Harlem, his preferred geographical and spiritual home base, aswell as the larger political, social, musical, and artistic milieu of his rapidly changing times.