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Volume 2 includes the books Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943), Fields of Wonder (1947), and One-Way Ticket (1949). Starting around 1940, Hughes turned away from radical socialism toward strong support for the national war effort; as a poet, he resumed his experimentation in the blues, as Shakespeare in Harlem brilliantly demonstrates. With this change in political emphasis came a renewed commitment to the achievement of civil...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0826213405
ISBN13:9780826213402
Release Date:June 2001
Publisher:University of Missouri Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
Age Range:18 to 10 years
Grade Range:Postsecondary to Grade 5
Customer Reviews
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cultural insight
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Excellent view of an emerging modernist culture in a time when little has been shared generally with the mainstream American history instruction in schools. Uplifting and provocative in a positive way. For a whitebread middleclass American, I found this refreshing when compared to the mudslinging of the divisionist politics currently going on in the Presidential election. Each culture has unique views and gifts to share, this was an enlightening view of the Black Culture I had not seen before. Rapping and Krumping glorify the street, these writings glorify the inner soul. I am ordering Volume 2
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