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The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes (Paperback, New edition)
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The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes (Paperback, New edition)
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Loot Price R538
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Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of
his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry,
fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R.
Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art to enlarge our
appreciation of his contribution to American letters. Arguing that
readers often miss the complexity of Hughes's work because of its
seeming accessibility, Miller begins with a discussion of the
writer's auto-biography, an important yet hitherto neglected key to
his imagination. Moving on to consider the subtle resonances of his
life in the varied genres over which his imagination "wandered,"
Miller finds a constant symbiotic bond between the historical and
the lyrical. The range of Hughes's artistic vision is revealed in
his depiction of Black women, his political stance, his lyric and
tragi-comic modes. This is one of the first studies to apply recent
methods of literary analysis, including formalist, structuralist,
and semiotic criticism, to the work of a Black American writer.
Miller not only affirms in Hughes's work the peculiar qualities of
Black American culture but provides a unifying conception of his
art and identifies the primary metaphors lying at its heart. Here
is a fresh and coherent reading of the work of one of the twentieth
century's greatest voices, a reinterpretation that renews our
appreciation not only of Black American text and heritage but of
the literary imagination itself.
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