Perpetual War: Langston Hughes and the Shifting Masks of Global Fascism.
This article examines Langston Hughes's engagement with the mid-twentieth-century emergence of fascism. While paying special attention to his framing of fascism as a logical continuation of a deep history of enslavement and colonization, this article argues that Hughes primarily advances an elastic...
| Publicado en: | University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 94; no. 4; pp. 629 - 648 |
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Nov2025
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