New World Maker Volume 40 | Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes

Ryan James Kernan

ISBN 10: 0810144425 / ISBN 13: 9780810144422

Published by Northwestern University Press, 2022

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New World Maker Volume 40 | Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes | Ryan James Kernan | Taschenbuch | FlashPoints | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2022 | Northwestern University Press | EAN 9780810144422 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New World Maker Volume 40 | Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810144425
• ISBN 13: 9780810144422
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 152W x 231H x 44D millimeters 152 millimeters width by 231 millimeters height by 44 millimeters depth
• Weight: 586 grams
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Synopsis

In an ambitious reappraisal of Langston Hughes’s work and legacy, Ryan James Kernan reads Hughes’s political poetry in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora. Drawing on heretofore unearthed archival evidence, Kernan shows how Hughes mined his engagements with the poetics of Louis Aragon, Nicolás Guillén, Regino Pedroso, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Federico García Lorca, and Léopold Sédar Senghor, as well as translations of his own poetry, to fashion a radical poetics that engaged Black left internationalist concerns. As he follows Hughes from Harlem to Havana, Moscow, Madrid, and finally to Dakar, Kernan reveals how the writer’s identity and aesthetic were translated within these leftist geographies and metropoles, by others but also collaboratively. As Kernan argues, we cannot know Hughes without knowing him in translation.
 
Through original research and close readings alert to the foreign prosody underlying Hughes’s work, New World Maker recuperates his political writing, which had been widely maligned by Cold War detractors and adherents of New Criticism, and affirms his place as a progenitor of African diasporic literature and within the pantheon of US modernists. Demonstrating the integral part translation played in Hughes’s creative process, this book challenges a number of common assumptions about this canonical thinker and offers important insights for scholars of African diasporic literature, comparative literature, and American, Caribbean, and translation studies.

About the Author

RYAN JAMES KERNAN is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Rutgers University.