Gender and race in Langston Hughes’ poetry of the Spanish Civil War

African American poet Langston Hughes worked as a press correspondent during the Spanish civil war. This experience left an imprint in his production and particularly poetry, giving light to significant advances entwinement of race, gender, identity. The acclaimed diversity Hughes’ feminine models, inclusive stance find difficult accommodation poetic corpus about Spain. Using critical appraisal class gender divisions, representation female characters is discussed attending their different forms inclusion exclusion. Their relationship with later developments construction agency assessed, singularity certain explored. Finally, conclusions are drawn demonstrate relevant understudied contributions this for better understanding universe whole.