Introduction : in others' words : translation and survival -- Nomad heart : heterolingual autobiographical -- Southern exposures : Hughes in Spanish -- Buenos Aires blues : modernism in the creole city -- Havana vernaculars : the Cuba Libre project...
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Introduction : in others' words : translation and survival -- Nomad heart : heterolingual autobiographical -- Southern exposures : Hughes in Spanish -- Buenos Aires blues : modernism in the creole city -- Havana vernaculars : the Cuba Libre project -- Back in the USSA : Joe McCarthy's mistranslations The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific writer, translator, and editor. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. This study contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a literary practice: it is a fact of life and a way of thinking
