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  • Chapter 10 - Langston Hughes and the 1930s: From Harlem to the USSR

  • from Part IV - International, Black, and Radical Visions
  • Edited by Eve Dunbar, Vassar College, New York, Ayesha K. Hardison, University of Kansas
  • Book:
    African American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940
    Published online:
    25 March 2022
    Print publication:
    07 April 2022, pp 296-320

  • Summary

    This chapter argues that the articles, poems, interviews, essays, and memoirs that emerged from Hughes’s eighteen months in the USSR reflect a distinct literary-mobility paradigm through which he critiques American race, gender, politics, justice, capitalism, and power relationships, through the rhetorical device of travel writing. Traveling to the USSR in 1932 with a group of African American writers, actors, and activists who had been invited to make a film about race in America, Hughes was eager to participate in the socialist aesthetic agenda. Despite his initial enthusiasm, Hughes soon became disillusioned with the Soviet system.