“More than McKay and Guillen: The Caribbean in Hughes and Bontemps’s The Poetry of the Negro”
About This Research
The essay critically analyzes the first edition of The Poetry of the Negro, a collection of poems coedited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps in 1949. The essay also takes a closer look at the questions and answers that arise in the collection, including the ways to approach and define blackness and Black art. Other questions proposed by the specified collection that are discussed by Nwankwo include how Black artists should articulate themselves and his or her art’s specific purpose, the contributions “Black art” should provide to the world, and many more.
Date
20 November