Introduction: Pan-African entanglements and cultural exchange -- Vernacular Pan-African Entanglements: Langston Hughes and Claude McKay -- Scale Enlargement A: Langston Hughes and the Caribbean. "Marks of a Rebellious Slave": Langston Hughes, Haiti, and Jacques Roumain -- Scale Enlargement B: Hughes, McKay, and Negritude. "It Cancels the Slave Ship!": Aimé Césaire, the Haitian Revolution, and Langston Hughes -- Scale Enlargement C: Langston Hughes and Africa. A "Song of Africa across Oceans and Centuries": Langston Hughes, Negritude, and South Africa -- Cultural Exchange in Ask your mama -- Coda: Paule Marshall and Langston Hughes.
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"This book explores Langston Hughes' associations with black writers from the Caribbean and Africa for a uniquely transnational approach to the life, work, and influence of this important African American literary figure"-- Provided by publisher.
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