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Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
Author: Jonathan Scott
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One of the foremost African American writers of his generation, Langston Hughes waged a tireless campaign against racial oppression that defied the anticommunist currents of cold war America. Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes examines his writing during this period to show that his approach to the main philosophical currents of the era was original, dynamic, and systematic in ways that most scholars have yet to appreciate.Jonathan Scott has written the first book-length study to analyze the extraordinary range of Hughess creative output, showing that his unassailable reputation as one of Americas finest folk poets barely scratches the surface of his oeuvre. Scott offers a robust account of the relations between Hughes and political activism to show that Hughess direct involvement with the U.S. socialist movement of the 1920s and 1930s was largely responsible for the variety of his writing. Scott also contends that the goal of overthrowing white oppression produced a socialist joy that would express itself repeatedly in Hughess work during the anticommunist crusades of the 1950s and 1960s.In his provocative study, Scott explores four areas of Hughess intellectual work his relationship with Afro-Caribbean arts, Soviet Russia, and the Harlem Renaissance his postwar newspaper writing for the African American press his extensive cultural work as an anthologist and his writings for young people. Through these analyses, Scott proposes the concept of red, white, and black as an alternative paradigm for appreciating Hughes in particular and the American scene in general.Scott views Hughes not simply as a great author but as an American working-class intellectual trickster whose eccentric projects require a redefinition of the very concept of authorship. By focusing on Hughess intellectual method, Scott also contests the notion of reducing all African Americans to one undifferentiated social status beneath that of any class within the white oppressing groupa hallmark of racial oppression that has diminished, in the U.S. academy, Hughess international status.As Scott persuasively argues, it is only through an understanding of Hughess literary method that we can undertake a thorough account of his prolific production during the cold war era. His book situates Hughess life and work in their proper contexts, both reconfirming Hughess reputation as an intellectual of the American Left and establishing his long-denied place in American studies as the most well-rounded writer of his time.**
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