Langston Hughes in Context

Vera M. Kutzinski is Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. Kutzinski has published widely on Langston Hughes and black diasporic literatures from the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. Anthony Reed, Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing (2014), winner of the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and Soundworks: Race, Poetry, and Sound in Production (2021).

• Introduction: Langston Hughes in context Vera M. Kutzinski and Anthony Reed; Part I. Singing America: Different Voices and Genres: 1. Hughes, Chicago, and modernism Anita Patterson; 2. Jazz performance and Hughes's embodied modernism Michael Borshuk; 3. His way with white folks: Hughes and literary patronage Emily Bernard; 4. Distancing love in selected letters of Langston Hughes and Carrie Hughes Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell; 5. Hughes's 1930s short fiction Gary Edward Holcomb; 6. Hughes and simple: across form and space to a political consciousness Sandhya Shukla; 7. Hughes's famous books, Ebony magazine, and the politics of civil rights in biographies for the young Katharine Capshaw; 8. Back-porch blues, black masculinity, and the rural Midwest Andy Oler; 9. From the sublime to the grotesque: red Langston reconsidered Juan Rodríguez Barrera; 10. Coalitional aesthetics: Hughes and the John Reed clubs Matthew Beeber; 11. Hughes's translingual poetics and pedagogy Keith Michael Green; Part II. The Global Hughes: Travel and Translation: 12. Hughes and the Haitian Revolution Philip Kaisary; 13. Taking Louise Bennett seriously: Hughes, gender, and transnational friendship Bernie Lombardi; 14. Hughes in Mexico Astrid Haas; 15. Hughes in Spain Evelyn Scaramella; 16. Hughes in Cuba and South America Vera M. Kutzinski; 17. Hughes, colonialism, and decolonization Shane Graham; 18. Hughes as cold-war diplomat Harilaos Stecopoulos; 19. Hughes in the Soviet Union Kate A. Baldwin; 20. Hughes in Italy Cristina Lombardi-Diop; 21. Hughes and the Shanghai jazz scene Selina Lai-Henderson; 22. Hughes's short fiction in 1930s Korea Jang Wook Huh; Part III. Afterlives: Home and Abroad: 23. Anthologizing the writings of Langston Hughes, 1925– 2020 Howard Rambsy II and Kenton Rambsy; 24. Hughes and the Black Arts Movement James Smethurst; 25. Hughes's simple story cycles in German translation Dorothea Fischer-Hornung; 26. Dreams deferred in Arabic: translating Hughes from the USA to Egypt Michelle Hartman; 27. A raisin in the (fallen) sun: a nuclear reading of The Black Pacific Etsuko Taketani; 28. Langston Hughes, queer Harlem renaissance author Gary Edward Holcomb; 29. Reading Scottsboro, Limited in the era of Black Lives Matter. Anthony Reed.