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At the Crossroads. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 52
In the landscape of African-American literature,
Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison
form a powerful trinity offering sustained
critiques of American culture on a range of levels --
socially, artistically, and psychically. One of the
principal writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston
Hughes was virtuosic in his literary craft, and one
of his more powerful works -- 'Father and Son' --
remains a landmark meditation on the alienation
facing African-Americans on American soil. Building
upon the mature work of Hughes, Richard Wright
reveals a nation of the bitter dream in his 1945
autobiography, where a young black boy must come to
terms with an education that is as violent as it is
liberating. And Ralph Ellison, whose 1952 novel
remains of one the classic achievements in all modern
literature, offers 'existential equipment for living'
at the crossroads of American culture. In all, this
book is a 'blues-shaped' study of three of the most
important African-American artists who wrote within
the conflicted and conflicting American context.
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