AFRICAN AMERICANS

African American Writers

African American Writers

During 1920 to 1940, African American writers became more assertive, more aware of their cultural heritage and consciously artistic or modern because of knowledge and experience they were receiving at that time. Moreover, at that time, people identified the skills of such writers and acknowledged them to a considerable extent. The writers, in a variety of essays and articles, and from different perspectives, approached the subject of writing in order to explain the various manifestations and, especially, the culture. The work of African American is on the mix of rich and powerful writings, originality and creative work. We will be discussing some of the African American writers, and their contribution to work is discussed below in order to understand their cultural heritage.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is one of the most influential African American writers. He was a major player in the "Harlem Renaissance". Hughes is one of the literary influences that have the greatest impact by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Whitman. Hughes is particularly famous for his colorful portraits of black life in America for 20 years to 60 years. He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as, poetry (Barksdale et al. 1997). He is also famous for commitment vis-à-vis the world of jazz, and the influence that this music had on his literary work. His life and work were crucial in the development of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Unlike other black writers of this period, Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experiences of living together of black Americans. He wanted to tell the stories of his community in ways that reflected their culture, including their suffering and their love of music, their humor and their own language. This multifaceted artistic movement (literature, theater, graphic arts, music) lasted from just after the First World War until the mid-thirties (Richardson et al. 1987). This movement was also very creative aspirations and the bearer of social criticism on the American black people and America as a whole. To discover the "Harlem Renaissance,” we should read "Harlem 1900-1935" under the direction of Isabelle Richet (other editions, Series Memory, 1993). An anthology of key texts in English was published by Penguin Books as "The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader" (edited by David Levering Lewis). We must be able to find it in "Shakespeare and Co". To return to Langston Hughes, he left ...