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Chapter 18 - Langston Hughes and Cultural Diplomacy
from Part II - The Global Langston Hughes
- By Harilaos Stecopoulos
Edited by Vera M. Kutzinski, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, Anthony Reed, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Book: Langston Hughes in Context
Published online: 10 November 2022
Print publication: 24 November 2022, pp 192-202
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This chapter examines Langston Hughes’s long-neglected service as a literary ambassador. Focusing on Hughes’s 1965 trip to France and his 1966 visit to Senegal, the chapter demonstrates that the eminent poet used Cold War cultural diplomacy to promote Black internationalist connection and, more surprisingly, to express his political and aesthetic disagreements with an incipient Black Arts Movement.