{"product_id":"langston-hughes-9781789141955","title":"Langston Hughes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the first black author in America to make his living exclusively by writing, Langston Hughes inspired a generation of writers and activists. One of the pioneers of jazz poetry, Hughes led the Harlem Renaissance, while Martin Luther King invoked his signature metaphor of dreaming in his speeches. In this new biography, W. Jason Miller illuminates Hughes’s status as an international literary figure through a compelling look at the relationship between his extraordinary life and his canonical works. Drawing on unpublished letters and manuscripts, Miller addresses Hughes’s often ignored contributions to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and his complex and well-guarded sexuality, and repositions him as a writer, rather than merely the most beloved African American poet of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue  1  Motherless Child, 1901-19 2  I, Too, am America, 1919-24 3  A Bone of Contention, 1924-30 4  In the USSR, 1930-33 5  Let America Be America Again, 1933-40 6  Aimee B. Simple, 1940-45 7  F. B. Eyes, 1945-50 8  Montage of a Dream Deferred, 1950-53 9  Seeing Red, 1953-60 10  Bright Tomorrows, 1960-62 11  I Dream a World, 1962-7  Epilogue    References   Further Reading Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements","brand":"Reaktion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863907008855,"sku":"9781789141955","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789141955.jpg?v=1759921301","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/langston-hughes-9781789141955","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}