Langston Hughes and the South African Drum generation
Subtitle: the correspondence
By: edited by Shane Graham and John Walters ; introduction by Shane Graham
Contributors: Graham, Shane; Walters, John
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780230102934
Subjects: Correspondence; American Authors; Drum (Johannesburg, South Africa); African American authors; South African Authors
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.