![]() There was a sense-particularly among gay men of color, like Julien, who had so few “out” ancestors and wanted to claim the prolific, uneven, but significant writer as one of their own-that some essential things about Hughes had been obscured or disfigured in his work and his memoirs. Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Carl Van Vechten Trust / Beinecke Library, Yaleīy the time the British artist Isaac Julien’s iconic short essay-film “Looking for Langston” was released, in 1989, Julien’s ostensible subject, the enigmatic poet and race man Langston Hughes, had been dead for twenty-two years, but the search for his “real” story was still ongoing. ![]() Langston Hughes’s genial, generous, and guarded persona was self-protective. ![]()
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