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Which Sin To Bear? mines Langston Hughes's creative work, newspaper columns, letters, and unpublished papers to reveal a writer who faced a daunting array of dicey questions and intimidating obstacles, and whose triumphs and occasional missteps are a fascinating and telling part of his legacy. David E. Chinitz explores Hughes's efforts to negotiate the problems of identity and ethics he faced as an African American professional writer and intellectual, tracing his early efforts to fashion himself as an authentic black poet of the Harlem Renaissance and his later imagining of a new and more inclusive understanding of authentic blackness. He also examines Hughes's lasting yet self-critical commitment to progressive politics in the mid-century years and shows how, in spite of ambivalence-and, at times, anguish-Hughes was forced to engage in ethical compromises to achieve his personal and social goals.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press Inc
ISBN-139780190623968
eBay Product ID (ePID)223152285
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameWhich Sin to Bear?: Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSocial Sciences
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid E. Chinitz
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight438 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorDavid E. Chinitz