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- Title
The Transnational Frequency of Radio Connectivity in Langston Hughes's 1940s Poetics.
- Authors
Neigh, Janet
- Abstract
The article critiques several poems by African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes, including "Ballad of Margie Polite," "Broadcast to the West Indies" and "Good Morning." Hughes' depiction of transnational solidarity between African Americans of Harlem, New York City, New York and blacks of the West Indies, including his use of an imaginary radio broadcast to portray this theme in the poem "Broadcast to the West Indies," is discussed.
- Subjects
HUGHES, Langston, 1902-1967; BALLAD of Margie Polite (Poem); BROADCAST to the West Indies (Poem); GOOD Morning (Poem); TRANSNATIONALISM in literature; HARLEM (New York, N.Y.) in literature; BLACK Caribbean people; RADIO broadcasting in literature; THEMES in literature
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2013, Vol 20, Issue 2, p265
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2013.0046