| FT-52660-04 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | David Evan Chinitz | Langston Hughes's "Bricks of Compromise" | 6/1/2004 - 7/31/2004 | $5,000.00 | David | Evan | Chinitz | | | | Loyola University, Chicago | Chicago | IL | 60611-2147 | USA | 2004 | Literature, General | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
I propose to develop an article on Langston Hughes’s negotiations with political and ethical compromise. Always ambivalent about the virtue of compromise, Hughes nevertheless developed into a master of that unglamorous art, and my essay will show the effects of compromise in his poetry and prose as he responded to the challenges he faced as an African-American public intellectual. This essay draws together my published articles on Hughes and a piece now in progress, all of which show how Hughes labored to steer between various extremes. Ultimately I intend to synthesize this work in a book on Hughes’s "middle way" in ethics and aesthetics. |