Hughes, Langston

The purpose of this study is to draw out the important though neglected international dimension of the flowering of black literary activity in the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance. By exploring the international experiences of several key Harlem Renaissance figures and text…

This thesis explores connections between D. H. Lawrence and four key writers of the Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston. It investigates both the responses of these writers to Lawrence's work and the ways in which New Negro write…