Based on your analysis of Langston Hughes essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926) and Richard Wright’s “Blueprint for Negro Writing” (1937), write a paper that addresses the following questions or come up with your own questions:
• What is the role of an African American writer according to Langston Hughes and Richard Wright?
• According to Hughes and Wright what should an African American writer write about?
• What is the African American author’s responsibility as a writer and as a representative of her race?
• Comment on the Marxist influence on both these works
• What is the importance of Hughes’ and Wright’s arguments in these two essays?
