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Chapter 15 - Langston Hughes in Spain

from Part II - The Global Langston Hughes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2022

By
Evelyn Scaramella
Edited by
Vera M. Kutzinski  and
Anthony Reed
Vera M. Kutzinski
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Anthony Reed
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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This chapter explores Langston Hughes’s travels to Spain as a political correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. His journalism, featuring interviews with the Black volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, was just one genre in a significant body of literary production that he completed in Spain. His time in Spain was a culmination of political activities related to labor, antiracist, anticolonial, and antifascist causes. The chapter examines how literary collaborations with the Spanish avant-garde group the Generation of 1927, and specifically his relationships with Rafael Alberti and María Teresa León, nurtured his production of original poetry, theater, and translations of Federico García Lorca’s Romancero gitano and Bodas de sangre. In Spain, Hughes experimented with multilingualism and intertextual adaptation across different mediums in order to show antifascist solidarity across linguistic, national, and racial boundaries.

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translationSpanish Civil WarMaría Teresa LeónRafael AlbertiFederico García Lorca
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Langston Hughes in Context , pp. 160 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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