| Author 1: | Manthia Diawara | |
| Title: | The Absent One: The Avant-Garde and the Black Imaginary in "Looking for Langston" | |
| Published in: | Wide Angle | |
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| Year: | 1991 | |
| Vol./No./Date: | 13, nos. 3 & 4 | |
| Pages: | 96-109 | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| Synopsis: | The article discusses Isaac Julien's film "Looking for Langston" - not only as a biographical account of Langston Hughes's life, but also as a statement on blackness and homosexuality. By comparing Julien and Hughes, Diawara draws parallels between the Black Renaissance in Britain in the 1980s and the Harlem Renaissance in the USA in the 1920s and 1930s. She also discusses the aesthetics of "Looking for Langston." | |
| Keyword 1: | Isaac Julien | |
| Keyword 2: | Looking for Langston | |
| Keyword 3: | black | |
| Keyword 4: | African American | |
| Keyword 5: | Langston Hughes | |
| Keyword 6: | homosexuality | |
| Keyword 7: | Harlem Renaissance | |
| Keyword 8: | aesthetics | |
| Keyword 9: | 1980s | |
| Keyword 10: | black British film | |
| Film Reference 1: | Looking for Langston | |
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