The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes - Paperback

by R. Miller (Author)

" Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art in an effort to broaden our appreciation of his contribution to American letters.

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This is one of the first studies to apply recent methods of literary analysis, including formalist, structuralist, and semiotic criticism, to the work of a Black American writer.

Author Biography

R. Baxter Miller is professor of English and director of the Black Literature Program at the University of Tennessee. His published works include Reference Guide to Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks and Black American Literature and Humanism.