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- Title
Rejuvenation through Joy: Langston Hughes, Primitivism, and Jazz.
- Authors
Chinitz, David
- Abstract
The article focuses on the works of U.S. poet and writer Langston Hughes. Hughes reacted as both artist and social critic to the primitivist ferment of the early twentieth century. His position was of course complicated by his racial identity, which made him an object and not merely an observer of primitivist representations. The complex and often conflicted results are manifest in much of his early work. In extricating himself from the primitivist movement, Hughes struggled to disengage ideas long fused in primitivist discourse, attempting to rescue elements of primitivism that he continued to find meaningful-especially those pertaining to African-American jazz.
- Subjects
REJUVENATION in literature; PRIMITIVISM in literature; JOY in literature; CRITICISM; HUGHES, Langston, 1902-1967; BLACK authors
- Publication
American Literary History, 1997, Vol 9, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
0896-7148
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/alh/9.1.60