The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator editor and marketer Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did earning him adulation throughout Europe Asia and especially the Americas In The Worlds of Langston Hughes Vera Kutzinski contends that for writers who are part of the African diaspora translation is more than just a literary practice it is a fact of life and a way of thinking Focusing on Hughes s autobiographies translations of his poetry his own translations and the political lyrics that brought him to the attention of the infamous McCarthy Committee she shows that translating and being translated and often mistranslated are as vital to Hughes s own poetics as they are to understanding the historical network of cultural relations known as literary modernism As Kutzinski maps the trajectory of Hughes s writings across Europe and the Americas we see the remarkable extent to which the translations of his poetry were in conversation with the work of other modernist writers Kutzinski spotlights cities whose role as meeting places for modernists from all over the world has yet to be fully explored Madrid Havana Buenos Aires Mexico City and of course Harlem The result is a fresh look at Hughes not as a solitary author who wrote in a single language but as an international figure at the heart of a global intellectual and artistic formation

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