Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Langston Hughes: His Life and Times

Langston Hughes: His Life and Times

In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker and renowned Langston Hughes biographer Arnold Rampersad talk about "The Poet Laureate of Harlem" with award-winning filmmaker Bruce Schwartz. Together they discuss experiences that shaped young Langston, how he came to be a writer, the beauty of his writing style, his practice of reaching out to aspiring writers, and the Harlem Renaissance as a literary and cultural watershed. They also discuss the force of religion in Southern Christian African-American communities and "Salvation," Hughes’ coming-of-age story deftly brought to the screen by Schwartz. (26 minutes)

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Item#: BVL31533
Copyright date: ©2003
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-6983-5

Part of the Series : Langston Hughes: Working Toward Salvation


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