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Black romantic.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF LANGSTON HUGHES Edited by Arnold Rampersad. University of Missouri Press.
Langston Hughes died in 1967, just as a wave of academic and popular interest in African American literature was sweeping the country. By that time, he had been entrenched in mainstream American literary culture for nearly forty years as a popular black poet, novelist, collector of African American folklore, anthologist of poetry and fiction, and man of letters. Born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902, Hughes...See the full content of this document
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