TY - BOOK ID - 1258887 TI - The art and imagination of Langston Hughes PY - 2006 SN - 0813116627 1322598525 0813191521 0813157439 0813127181 9780813157436 9781322598529 9780813116624 9780813127187 9780813191522 PB - Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, DB - UniCat KW - Hughes, Langston KW - African Americans in literature KW - Afro-Americans in literature KW - Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur KW - Afro-Américains dans la littérature KW - Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur KW - Black Americans in literature KW - Negroes in literature KW - Noirs américains dans la littérature KW - Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - African Americans in literature. KW - Hughes, Langston, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Hugues, Langston UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1258887 AB - 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 to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters.Arguing that readers often miss the complexity of Hughes's work because of its seeming accessibility, Miller begins with a discussion of the writer's auto-biography, an important yet hitherto neglected key to his imagination. Moving on to consider the subtle resonances of his life in the var ER -