“Before Morrison and Before Baldwin: Langston Hughes as the Architect of Black Literary Tradition” by Adam Page
Before James Baldwin held up a mirror to white America, before Toni Morrison rebuilt the novel from the inside out, there was Langston Hughes. Sitting in Harlem, listening to jazz, writing poems on napkins in bars where nobody thought poetry happened. In this deeply researched and passionately argue
The Oral Continuum: A Comprehensive Historiography of Spoken Word
The evolution of spoken word as a primary medium of expression within the African Diaspora is not a modern phenomenon but rather the continuation of an ancient, complex oral continuum. This tradition functions as a sophisticated living archive where the voice serves as a vessel for history, genealog