![]() ![]() The autobiography is considered an important account of the various obstacles African-American creatives faced in the early twentieth-century United States. Hughes also comments on the systemic racial injustice he sees around him in the United States. As he evolved as a writer and thinker, Hughes worked through the psychological burden of past abuse inflicted by his father, torn between empathizing with his father’s own sources of trauma and the damage it did to him. With few opportunities to make money, Hughes learned to be highly resourceful, taking up odd jobs in nightclubs and taking small writing jobs to get by. ![]() Published in 1940, when Hughes was 38, the volume retraces his early childhood, adolescence, and initial years trying to succeed as a writer and artist of minority status in New York and Paris. Big Sea is the first book in the autobiographical series of African-American poet Langston Hughes. ![]()
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