The Big Sea
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title:
The Big Sea
text:
The Big Sea (1940) is an autobiographical work by Langston Hughes. In it, he tells his experience of being a writer of color in Paris, France, and his experiences living in New York, where he faced injustices surrounding systematic racism. In his time in Paris, Hughes struggled to find a stable income and had to learn to be efficient by taking many odd jobs like working in nightclubs and small writing jobs. Eventually, he began to rise to fame as a writer, Hughes began referencing his past strug
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African-American autobiography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Sea
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2024-01-04T05:32:30Z
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