Fall 2006 Courses

English 380-03: Langston Hughes: Global Writer (Moore)

T/TH 1:00-2:30pm, Carnegie 404

The great African American writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is widely remembered as the "poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance." Though richly true, this title masks Hughes' remarkably wide-ranging and internationalist career. He published in every imaginable genre – children's story, humor, novel, memoir, drama, song lyric, history, and more – and collaborated with writers from Latin America, Soviet Central Asia, Africa and the Francophone Caribbean. He was also the first black writer of any nation to make his living exclusively from writing.

This course ranges chronologically and widely through Hughes's career, attending to multiple dynamics. Written assignments may include research on little-known or archival texts, making use of materials not available to the general public.

Fall 2006 Course Listings