Troubled Lands - Princeton University Press

A Landmark Bookthe First Complete Publication Of Langston Hughess Translations Of Thirty-three Stories By Eighteen Mexican And Cuban Writersin Late 1934, Langston Hughes, Already Established As A Leading Voice Of Literary Black America, Traveled To Mexico City, Where He Stayed For More Than Five Months And Began Translating Short Fiction By Prominent Mexican And Cuban Writers. These Stories, As He Wrote To A Friend, Explore The Revolutions And Uprisings, Sugar Cane, Negroes, Indians, Corrupt Generals, And American Imperialists, And Are Mostly All Left Stories, Because Practically All The Writers Down Here Are Left These Days. But When Hughes Proposed Publishing The Stories As A Book, To Be Titled Troubled Lands, His Agent Discouraged Him From Further Pursuing The Project And It Remained Unpublished, Until Now, With Only A Handful Of The Translations Making Their Way Into Contemporary Magazines.