James Baldwin’s Quest for Ethics Echoing Leo Tolstoy by Yuri V. Stulov

“…Dumas was regarded as a symbol of talent of a person with African roots; visits to Soviet Russia of African American writers, especially of Langston Hughes who significantly influenced Baldwin’s worldview; and their search for creative ideas which they found in Russian literature, like Richard Wright, his mentor in literature. …”
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Imagining Cool Fashion Bodies and “Exoticism” in the Literature of the Weimar Republic by Catharina Rüß

“…This demonstrates that the 1920s were perceived as a short period, as Langston Hughes states, “where the negro was in vogue.” …”
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American modernism and the poetics of labour by Grogan, K

“…My second chapter looks at the impact of individualism and theories of collective labour on the poetry of Langston Hughes, especially the Constructivist aesthetics of his 1938 pamphlet A New Song. …”

Surgimiento y evolución del formato bilingüe de poesía traducida en Argentina by Mario Rucavado Rojas

“…Para ello, se establece un corpus a partir del relevamiento de los catálogos de bibliotecas públicas, de catálogos editoriales y consultas a editoriales particulares, que permite identificar el surgimiento de este formato en los años treinta con las traducciones de Langston Hughes por Jorge Luis Borges y Le cimetière marin de Paul Valéry por Néstor Ibarra, para luego consolidarse en Sur y otras revistas. …”
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The emerging social sciences and editorial practice in poetry and the crisis in the early twentieth century by Cole, J

“…This chapter draws on analyses of writings by Jessie Fauset, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Fenton Johnson, and Langston Hughes to demonstrate the ways in which the poetry of black writers was deployed in and actively participated in scientific debates surrounding race in turn-of-the-twentieth-century America.…”