Book chapter
Langston Hughes and Cultural Diplomacy
Langston Hughes in Context, pp.192-202
11/10/2022
DOI: 10.1017/9781009057783.021
Abstract
This chapter examines Langston Hughes’s long-neglected service as a literary ambassador. Focusing on Hughes’s 1965 trip to France and his 1966 visit to Senegal, the chapter demonstrates that the eminent poet used Cold War cultural diplomacy to promote Black internationalist connection and, more surprisingly, to express his political and aesthetic disagreements with an incipient Black Arts Movement.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Langston Hughes and Cultural Diplomacy
- Creators
- Harilaos Stecopoulos
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Langston Hughes in Context, pp.192-202
- DOI
- 10.1017/9781009057783.021
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/10/2022
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398724302771
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