SOURCE: “Jazzing It UP: The Be-bop Modernism of Langston Hughes,” in Mosaic, Vol. 31, No. 4, December, 1998, pp. 61-82.
In the following essay, Hokanson explores the uses of jazz be-bop as a Modernist technique in the literary works of Langston Hughes.
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