“Black As The Night Is Black”: A Study Of Black American Life In Langston Hughes’s Poetry

Abstract

Langston Hughes, contributed significantly to the Harlem Renaissance and wrote a variety of works, including plays, novels, poetry, and newspaper articles, all of which focused on the African American experience. American poet, activist, dramatist, writer, and journalist Hughes also wrote plays. He was among the first to invent jazz poetry, a brand-new literary and aesthetic style. One of the most significant authors and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, an African American aesthetic movement that celebrated black life and culture in the 1920s, was Langston Hughes. Hughes's upbringing in the mostly African American neighbourhood of Harlem had an effect on his artistic abilities. His words had an impact on American politics and literature. He shared the same sense of racial pride as other participants in the Harlem Renaissance. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, denounced racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humour, and spirituality.