... engages Derek Walcott, so Looking and Waves draw inspiration from their poets, Langston Hughes and Wang Ping, respectively. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 poetry in film texts and images verbal and visual interchange VISUALIZING CROSS-MEDIA ENCOUNTERS From...

... expansive anticolonial cultural politics that had been integral to the lives and careers of such participants as Katherine Dunham, Langston Hughes, and Duke Ellington. The uneasy, unacknowledged presence of a broader anticolonial cultural politics, and an urgent sense of the unfinished struggle against...

... Edgecombe Avenue pied-a-terre, she welcomed uptown and downtown artists, musicians, actors, writers, political activists, and socialites. Langston Hughes called her “the joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s” because her memorable gatherings lent such a glamorous, glitzy aura to the social scene above 110th Street...

... slips into Hughes’s lines: “ Night coming tenderly / on the sign, King’s absence and presence are both of being able to play with its visual orientation. as he takes his title from the final line of Langston Black like me. ”7 strongly felt. My overall approach...

... York Film Festival in 1990. Based on the figure of the African- American poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967), this was no plodding Hollywood bio-pic but a floridly seductive reverie on what...

... Hugo, we are sectarian, passionately, like Rimbaud and Lautréamont. We are also racist, yes. The kind of racism that Toussaint Louverture was known for; the racism of Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.3 The editors of Tropiques pleaded guilty for being racists like Louverture, McKay, and Hughes because...

... from Europe. We would see, how years later Stravinsky than Duke Ellington or Langston ©H fr®rtBijO§ Bebop had a clear impact on the work of Hughes. MmMm...

... for; what is urban and what use is their living and their labor? in performance. But the Ellington photo, where no performance is "Sweet Flypaper of Life." The poet Langston Hughes wrote the taking place, is unique. Jazz music, after all, requires a great deal...

... art. The very first pages of younger poets’ depiction of an everyday living that Black Fire strongly emphasize the aesthetic criteria is, as Langston Hughes writes, “beautiful. And ugly that differentiate Western, white art from black art. too.”22 In his introduction to the 1992 edition...

... of chances and possibly failing what did you feel Gordon Parks, Portrait of Langston Hughes. about that? Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. LC-USW3-033841-C. GP: Well, to be very honest, I never thought about...

... & Company, 1986), pp. 96,98. 33 Weston/Nancy Newhall correspondence, AG38:4/1 (1953), 34 Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, vol. 1, second edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. Center for Creative...

... September, Paris, Presence Africaine, 1956, was attended by Andaluz de Arte Contempordneo in Seville, Spain. such artists and writers as Frantz Fanon, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Langston Hughes...

... Festival in 1993, opened to glowing reviews at ema. Staff included the late Kathleen Collins, and Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper to Paul from what he is doing. Don’t let him put anything New York City’s Film Forum, and became the first Madeline Anderson, Stan Lathan, Charles...

... to Soviet equality is one more paradox. The AMSAC delegation to Lagos in 1961 included a number of important African American performers and celebrities. Langston Hughes was accompanied by Nina Simone, Randy Wilson, and the returnee jazz drummer Michael Olatunji. The festival was particularly inspired...

.... Prentiss Taylor, a white ciated idealized male nudes with moral virtue and artist with close ties to the black community in spiritual truth. Thus these figures could also have Harlem through his friendship with Langston asserted the dignity and purity of irrationally target• Hughes, also...

... by Langston Hughes, which comprised a book (1961) and subsequent spoken word LP (Caedmon, 1963) read by actor James Earl Jones; Tom Feelings s book Black Pilgrimage (1972), which resulted from his travels to Ghana in 1964; and the exhibition Ten Negro Artists from the United States, staged as part of the now...

...: Langston Hughes, tations of him by various American and European Primitivism, and Jazz,” American Literary History 9, no. 1 (Spring modern artists. He knowingly traded on stereotypes 1997): 65. 5 Ibid., 69–70. in order to make a space for himself within...

... University, so I went back to the university and said, you turned me down for going to MD & LD: Let’s tie that together. You look at Countee Cul- Africa, plus you sponsor this trip. So it’s covering the area len, “What Is Africa to Me and Langston Hughes, “I’ve that I would like to do, so they sponsored...

...- opened at the King Site, however, more than fifty Barnett, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen. A thousand people went to see it just in the first two twelve-minute video documentary on lynching months, surpassing the turnouts in New York and directed by Matt Dibble and produced...

... outward to the own twenty-six paintings included in this book- Harlem of the African American writers Langston length poem: Breakers, Becune Point looks back Hughes and James Baldwin. In Frantz Fanon: out at a panoramic seascape. From here Julien Black Skin, White Mask (1996), Julien...