New world maker : radical poetics, Black internationalism and the translations of Langston Hughes / Ryan James Kernan ; foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley.

Author/creator Kernan, Ryan James, 1975- author.
Other author Kelley, Robin D. G. writer of foreword.
Format Book
PublicationEvanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2022]
Descriptionxv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) ^A1179822
Contents Introduction: Langston Hughes: Poet-Translator and Black Radical Internationalist -- Writer's Block: Unmuzzling Racial Discourse in Cuba -- Reborn in Translation: Conversing with a Hughes Born Abroad -- Talk about Mothers: Translating the Modernist Folk -- Hughes Translates Pedroso: Proletarian and Social Lyrics -- Moscow, Martinique, and Me: Freedom Dreaming and World Making -- Translating Mayakovsky and Aragon: The Poetics of Dialectical Revolt and Intertextual Subjectivity -- Langston and Lorca: Envisioning a New Pan-Africanism -- Conclusion: A Tapestry of Words.
Abstract "New World Maker reappraises Langston Hughes's political poetry, reading the writer's leftist works in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 389-401) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2022006290
ISBN9780810144422
ISBN0810144425 paperback
ISBN9780810144439 hardcover
ISBN0810144433 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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