Race and Transnational Solidarity in Langston Hughes’s Travel Writing
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This essay asks how Langston Hughes’s travel writing can provide a point of entry to a critical understanding of race and black transnationalism. While critics have traditionally approached Hughes’s I Wonder as I Wander as an embodiment of his conflicted ideas about black nationalism and a more universal sense of class struggle in the 1930s, recent scholarship attends to the global dimensions of the text and its impact on decolonial knowledge production across cultural borders. Building on Shu-mei Shih’s notion of “comparative racialization,” this essay examines how Hughes’s travel narrative enables us to apprehend the meaning of race and its influence on racial others and the poor on a global scale. By juxtaposing Hughes’s transatlantic and transpacific experiences in I Wonder as I Wander, I argue that Hughes employs transnational solidarity as a new cultural form that envisions critical utopianism and global networks against racism. Finally, this essay shows that his travel writing has shaped and continues to shape the idea of race and black diaspora as a set of contradictory and evolving practices for building more just futures that value racial and social equality.
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This essay asks how Langston Hughes’s travel writing can provide a point of entry to a critical understanding of race and black transnationalism. While critics have traditionally approached Hughes’s I Wonder as I Wander as an embodiment of his conflicted ideas about black nationalism and a more universal sense of class struggle in the 1930s, recent scholarship attends to the global dimensions of the text and its impact on decolonial knowledge production across cultural borders. Building on Shu-mei Shih’s notion of “comparative racialization,” this essay examines how Hughes’s travel narrative enables us to apprehend the meaning of race and its influence on racial others and the poor on a global scale. By juxtaposing Hughes’s transatlantic and transpacific experiences in I Wonder as I Wander, I argue that Hughes employs transnational solidarity as a new cultural form that envisions critical utopianism and global networks against racism. Finally, this essay shows that his travel writing has shaped and continues to shape the idea of race and black diaspora as a set of contradictory and evolving practices for building more just futures that value racial and social equality.
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