Research Catalog

Title

Langston Hughes : poems, photos & notebooks from Turkestan / Langston Hughes ; Zohra Saed, editor.

Author

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Publication

• New York : Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ghulom, Ghafur, 1903-1966.
• Ahmedi, Karim.
• Saed, Zohra, 1975-
• Alcalay, Ammiel
• Mangum, Megan
• City University of New York. Center for the Humanities publisher.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

4 unnumbered pages, 60 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"In 1932, along with a group of African American activists and writers including novelist Dorothy West, Langston Hughes journeyed to the Soviet Union. Veering off from the “official” trip, Hughes met Arthur Koestler before venturing on to an extended journey through the newly formed republics of Central Asia. While Hughes’ readers may be familiar with his A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, this chapbook makes available previously unpublished material drawn from Hughes’ notebooks, photographs, and collaborative translation projects with Uzbek poets. Just as his own work is being translated into Uzbek, Hughes—ever the participant—collaborates with his peer poets in the region to produce texts published in this collection for the first time. Finally, Hughes’ acuity of vision extends to his photographs appearing here, scenes of workers in the cotton fields of Central Asia that stand in stark contrast to official depictions of the time. Complementing The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes (2015) and a reprint of the 1926 edition of The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos & Notebooks from Turkestan reveals yet another aspect of the ever-expanding universe of one of the greatest American writers."--Publisher's website (viewed 05/07/2015).

Series Statement

Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 5, number 3, Spring 2015

Uniform Title

• Works. Selections
• Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ser. 5, no. 3.
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Langston Hughes : poems, photos and notebooks from Turkestan
• Poems, photos & notebooks from Turkestan

Subject

• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Travel > Uzbekistan
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Travel > Turkmenistan
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• Poets, American > 20th century
• Turkmenistan > Description and travel
• Uzbekistan > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Chapbooks, American – 21st century.
• Chapbooks – New York (State) – New York – 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Langston Hughes in Turkestan: an introduction / Zohra Saed ; Notebooks (1932-1933) -- "Old Uzbek poem" and "Tashkent" -- Gafur Gulam's "On the Turksib roads" -- Karimi Ahmedi: poem for Langston Hughes on his arrival to Uzbekistan / Langston Hughes ; Postscript / Zohra Saed ; Biographical notes.

ISBN

• 9780988894549 (series)
• 9780988894556

OCLC

• 908659929
• SCSB-12554864

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library