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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