At the Crossroads - Paperback - 9783639081046

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.

• | Author: Delano Greenidge-Copprue
• | Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• | Publication Date: Sep 03, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 52 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 3639081048
• | ISBN-13: 9783639081046