THE LANGSTON HUGHES SOCIETY AT MLA 2021

The Langston Hughes Society will be holding a panel at the Modern Language Association Convention on Saturday, January 9, 2021, from 12:00 to 1:15 PM. The session is entitled, "A Century of Transnational Circulation for Langston Hughes," and will be chaired by Dr. Tony Bolden, Editor of The Langston Hughes Review with the respondent as Dr. Shane D. Graham.

• "‘I’ve Known Rivers’: Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, and the Emergence of Caribbean Modernism"
  Anita Patterson, Boston University
• "The Negro Speaks in Many Tongues: Langston Hughes’s Translation Work and His Notion of Blackness"
  Cedric R. Tolliver, University of Houston
• "Downstream from ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’: Hughes, Negritude, and Black Internationalism"
  Ryan James Kernan, Rutgers University, New Brunswick