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Oct 03, 2024
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College Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENGL 384 - Langston Hughes: Global WriterCross-Listed as INTL 384 and AMST 384 The great African American writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is best known as the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. But his career was vaster still. He was a Soviet screenwriter, Spanish Civil War journalist, African literary anthologist, humorist, playwright, translator, social critic, writer of over 10,000 letters, and much more. This course engages Hughes’s full career, bridging race and global issues, politics and art, and makes use of little-known archival materials. This course fulfills the U.S. writers of color requirement for the English major. (4 Credits)
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