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The modernist poet T. S. Eliot has been applauded and denounced for
decades as a staunch champion of high art and an implacable
opponent of popular culture. But Eliot's elitism was never what it
seemed. "T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide" refurbishes this
great writer for the twenty-first century, presenting him as the
complex figure he was, an artist attentive not only to literature
but to detective fiction, vaudeville theater, jazz, and the songs
of Tin Pan Alley.
Which Sin To Bear? mines Langston Hughes's creative work, newspaper columns, letters, and unpublished papers to reveal a writer who faced a daunting array of dicey questions and intimidating obstacles, and whose triumphs and occasional missteps are a fascinating and telling part of his legacy. David E. Chinitz explores Hughes's efforts to negotiate the problems of identity and ethics he faced as an African American professional writer and intellectual, tracing his early efforts to fashion himself as an "authentic" black poet of the Harlem Renaissance and his later imagining of a new and more inclusive understanding of authentic blackness. He also examines Hughes's lasting yet self-critical commitment to progressive politics in the mid-century years and shows how, in spite of ambivalence-and, at times, anguish-Hughes was forced to engage in ethical compromises to achieve his personal and social goals.
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