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New world maker : radical poetics, Black internationalism and the translations of Langston Hughes

Title
New world maker : radical poetics, Black internationalism and the translations of Langston Hughes / Ryan James Kernan ; foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley.
Author
Kernan, Ryan James, 1975-
Publication
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors
Kelley, Robin D. G.
Description
xv, 424 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"New World Maker reappraises Langston Hughes's political poetry, reading the writer's leftist works in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora"--
Series Statement
FlashPoints
Uniform Title
FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Subject
  • Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
  • Poetry > Translating
  • African Americans > Poetry
  • Poetry > Black authors > History and criticism
  • Poetry > Black authors
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-401) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Langston Hughes: Poet-Translator and Black Radical Internationalist -- Writer's Block: Unmuzzling Racial Discourse in Cuba -- Reborn in Translation: Conversing with a Hughes Born Abroad -- Talk about Mothers: Translating the Modernist Folk -- Hughes Translates Pedroso: Proletarian and Social Lyrics -- Moscow, Martinique, and Me: Freedom Dreaming and World Making -- Translating Mayakovsky and Aragon: The Poetics of Dialectical Revolt and Intertextual Subjectivity -- Langston and Lorca: Envisioning a New Pan-Africanism -- Conclusion: A Tapestry of Words.
Call Number
Sc E 22-1396
ISBN
  • 9780810144422
  • 0810144425
  • 9780810144439
  • 0810144433
LCCN
2022006290
OCLC
1303569489
Author
Kernan, Ryan James, 1975- author.
Title
New world maker : radical poetics, Black internationalism and the translations of Langston Hughes / Ryan James Kernan ; foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley.
Publisher
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2022]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
FlashPoints
FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-401) and index.
Added Author
Kelley, Robin D. G., writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
Sc E 22-1396
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