Hughes and African Americans

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The paper discusses the success of Langston Hughes in changing American culture and influencing the nation to change its stereotypical way of viewing a black man. The paper looks at how Hughes established a variety of styles and genres and was a teacher who established a manner of writing known as the Hughesian method.

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"America had actively participated in two world wars, had suffered and despaired through a major depression, and had initiated a Cold War that would bring the entire world to the brink of destruction, a situation that would last for almost four decades. Such major and calamitous events precipitated not a few major literary works and authors. William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald all immediately leap to the forefront when discussing the literature of that era."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cunningham, George. Afterword to The Sweet and Sour Animal Book, by Langston Hughes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994
• McLaren, Joseph. "Langston Hughes and the Blues" Research in African Literatures, 34.3, (2003): 167 - 168
• "M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A." The Virginia Quarterly Review 80.4 (2004): 286
• Minter, David. William Faulkner: His Life and Work. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
• Okafor-Newsum, "Langston Hughes." Research in African Literatures 31.3 (2000): 198-201

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