Langston Hughes and the Blues |
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| Author:
| Tracy, Steven C. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-08804-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2024 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $64.99 |
Book Description:
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The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes's work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Comparing Hughes's poems to blues texts, Tracy reveals how Hughes's experimental forms reflect the ......
The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes's work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Comparing Hughes's poems to blues texts, Tracy reveals how Hughes's experimental forms reflect the ......