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Which Sin to Bear?: Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes

Which Sin to Bear?: Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes

Chinitz, David E.

Paperback

Literary Criticism20th Century United States HistoryPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0190623969
ISBN13: 9780190623968
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 1 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 mines Langston Hughes's creative work, newspaper columns, letters, and unpublished papers to reveal a writer who faced a daunting array of dicey questions and intimidating obstacles, and whose triumphs and occasional missteps are a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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