The Worlds of Langston Hughes : Modernism and Translation in the Americas /

The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific writer, translator, and editor. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. This study contends that, for writers who are part...

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Main Author: Kutzinski, Vera M., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : in others' words : translation and survival
  • Nomad heart : heterolingual autobiographical
  • Southern exposures : Hughes in Spanish
  • Buenos Aires blues : modernism in the creole city
  • Havana vernaculars : the Cuba Libre project
  • Back in the USSA : Joe McCarthy's mistranslations.