533 Langston Hughes in Context (with Vera Kutzinski and Anthony Reed) | My Last Book with Melissa Homestead
The History of Literature
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The Death of a Black American Youth
When he was in these other countries, did they view him as an intellectual comrade? I think based on some of the writing in the anthology a little bit of both. And as time has gone on, people have adapted to use to their own local struggles and they're just dead in him. A comrade, a fellow traveler. I realized this is all loaded Cold War language but if we can imagine using those terms uncoupled from their origin then it's not so bad.
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