Background
Miller, Ronald Baxter was born on October 11, 1948 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States. Son of Marcellus Cornelius and Elsie Miller.
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Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters. Arguing that readers often miss the complexity of Hughes's work because of its seeming accessibility, Miller begins with a discussion of the writer's auto-biography, an important yet hitherto neglected key to his imagination. Moving on to consider the subtle resonances of his life in the varied genres over which his imagination "wandered," Miller finds a constant symbiotic bond between the historical and the lyrical. The range of Hughes's artistic vision is revealed in his depiction of Black women, his political stance, his lyric and tragi-comic modes. This is one of the first studies to apply recent methods of literary analysis, including formalist, structuralist, and semiotic criticism, to the work of a Black American writer. Miller not only affirms in Hughes's work the peculiar qualities of Black American culture but provides a unifying conception of his art and identifies the primary metaphors lying at its heart. Here is a fresh and coherent reading of the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest voices, a reinterpretation that renews our appreciation not only of Black American text and heritage but of the literary imagination itself.
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Miller, Ronald Baxter was born on October 11, 1948 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States. Son of Marcellus Cornelius and Elsie Miller.
Bachelor magna cum laude, North Carolina Central University, 1970. AM, Brown University, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1974.
Assistant professor English Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1974-1976. Associate professor English, director Black literature program University Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1977-1981, professor English, director Black literature program, 1982-1992, Lindsay Young professor liberal arts and English, 1986-1987. Professor English, director Institute for African American Studies University Georgia, Athens, 1992—2006, professor English, African American studies, since 2006.
Instructor summer school Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island, 1973. Lecturer State University of New York, Oneonta, 1974. Mellon professor Xavier University, New Orleans, 1988.
Irvine Foundation visiting scholar University San Francisco, 1991.
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Member Modern Language Association (executive committee Afro-American Literature Discussion Group 1980-1983, chair 1982-1983, member delegate assembly 1984-1986, 97-99, committee on languages and literature of America 1993-1997, chair 1996), Langston Hughes Society (president 1984-1990, executive editor Langston Hughes Review since 1993).
Married Jessica Garris, June 5, 1971 (divorced December 1998). 1 child, Akin Dasan; Married Diana L. Ranson, September 3, 2000.