ENGLISH

Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence

By John Walters , Shane Graham

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2010
ISBN
023010293X, 9780230102934
LCC
PS3515.U274 Z597 2010
Open Library ID
OL23872930M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2238783 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
208\208
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In 1953 African-American poet Langston Hughes began corresponding with several South African writers variously affiliated with the legendary Drum magazine. Published here for the first time, these letters provide an invaluable glimpse into the growing repression of South African apartheid and the slow but painful progress of the American Civil Rights movement. Revealing a fascinating set of transatlantic friendships between a titan of American letters and a group of writers that includes Peter Clarke, Todd Matshikiza, Bloke Modisane, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Peter Abrahams, and Richard Rive, this volume highlights Hughes’s enormous influence on the rise of English-language literature by black and mixed-race writers in South Africa.

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