Re: elderly white query

Emily Moore (evmoore@hotmail.com)
Sun, 07 Jun 1998 12:28:06 -0700 (PDT)

jim writes:
>Eh, Exerting Great Literary Influence where?  In the States?  In 
>Europe? 
>In Africa?  Indochina?  Australia?

scottie bowman writes:
>>
>>	Incidentally, Camille, who from the 'African Nation' 
>>	*would* you commend as exerting great literary influence 
>>	in the past century ?

At least in school, it is presented as though Langston Hughes was pretty 
damn influential in the States, and not only in a literary sense. The 
Harlem Renaissance was not a small movement. But hey, he's not only not 
white, he's not straight. Why would Time ever choose to include him?

-emily

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