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 |
| Publication | Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2022] |
| Description | xv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | FlashPoints 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-401) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2022006290 |
| ISBN | 9780810144422 |
| ISBN | 0810144425 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780810144439 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0810144433 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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