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Hughes, Langston - (James Langston Hughes), 1902–67, American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, b. Joplin, Mo., grad. Lincoln Univ., 1929. He worked at a variety of jobs and lived in several countries, including Mexico and France, before Vachel Lindsay discovered his poetry in 1925. The publication of The Weary Blues (1926), his first volume of poetry, enabled Hughes to

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Langston Hughes, Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943 » Read Now
by Joseph McLaren. 196 pgs.

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Though known primarily as a poet, Langston Hughes crafted well over 40 theatrical works. This book examines Hughes's stage pieces from his first published play, The Gold Piece (1921), through his post-radical wartime effort, For This We Fight (1943). Hughes's stage writing of this period includes...
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Though known primarily as a poet, Langston Hughes crafted well over 40 theatrical works. This book examines Hughes's stage pieces from his first published play, The Gold Piece (1921), through his post-radical wartime effort, For This We Fight (1943). Hughes's stage writing of this period includes such forms as the folk comedy, the protest drama, the historical play and the blues opera. McLaren concludes that the "democratic" argument is ultimately employed by Hughes to challenge segregation in the military and that Hughes's iconography prefigures the black aesthetic of the 1960s. Photographs complement the text.
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A Bio-bibliography of Langston Hughes, 1902-1967 » Read Now
by Donald C. Dickinson. 259 pgs.

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A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes » Read Now
by Steven C. Tracy. 253 pgs.

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Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate, intelligent, and socially responsible art. In this volume, Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics to produce an interdisciplinary approach to the important historical and cultural...
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Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate, intelligent, and socially responsible art. In this volume, Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics to produce an interdisciplinary approach to the important historical and cultural elements reflected in Hughes's work. Their essays, all previously unpublished, place Hughes in the context of Harlem, his preferred geographical and spiritual home base, as well as the larger political, social, musical, and artistic milieu of his rapidly changing times. They examine Hughes's negotiation of his own moral and ethical ground in a complex, sometimes hostile world, and demonstrate the remarkable triumph of a sensitive, creative human being who refused to be overwhelmed by the forces of discrimination, pessimism, and bitterness that claimed so many writers of his generation. This volume, with its historical essays, brief biography, and illustrated chronology, provides a concise yet authoritative portrait of one of America's and the world's most beloved writers.
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Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP » Read Now
by Langston Hughes. 216 pgs.

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...The Story of the NAACP Langston Hughes W W NORTON COMPANY...from The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes . Copyright 1926, by Alfred...International. COPYRIGHT 1962, BY...
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Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance ("Langston Hughes" begins on p. 73) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 160 pgs.

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Harlem Renaissance Re-examined ("Langston Hughes: Evolution of the Poetic Persona" begins on p. 259) » Read Now
by Victor A. Kramer, Robert A. Russ. 422 pgs.

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While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-neglected writers and artists from that era for a second look at the roles that they played in developing...
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While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-neglected writers and artists from that era for a second look at the roles that they played in developing the arts in America, and for a re-evaluation of thier talents.
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 (Chap. 3 "'Adventures of a Social Poet': Langston Hughes in the 1930s") » Read Now
by James Edward Smethurst. 288 pgs.

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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and...
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and organized ideology from the "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers who are canonical, less well-known, and virtually unknown.
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Langston Hughes's Radical Poetry and the "End of Race," in MELUS » Read Now
by Anthony Dawahare. 23 pgs.

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...Langston Hughess Radical Poetry and the "End of Race...Dawahare For a number of reasons, Langston Hughess radical poetry, the bulk of which he...My Adventures as a Social...
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Jazzing It Up: The Be-Bop Modernism of Langston Hughes, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Robert O'Brien Hokanson. 22 pgs.

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...up: the be-bop modernism of Langston Hughes by Robert OBrien Hokanson...more attention is the work of Langston Hughes, for it could be argued that...versions of it...
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America's 93 Greatest Living Authors Present This Is My Best: Over 150 Self-Chosen and Complete Masterpieces, Together with Their Reasons for Their Selections ("Langston Hughes: Why He Selected Poems of American Negro Life" begins on p. 511) » Read Now
by Whit W. Burnett. 1188 pgs.

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...E. B. White sketch Quo Vadimus? 479 Louis Adamic story Girl on the Road 483 Langston Hughes poetry Poems of American Negro Life 511 Maxwell Anderson drama scene Mio and...
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Heroic "Hussies" and "Brilliant Queers": Genderracial Resistance in the Works of Langston Hughes, in African American Review » Read Now
by Anne Borden. 13 pgs.

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...genderracial resistance in the works of Langston Hughes. by Anne Borden In his writings, Langston Hughes explores the convergence of...represent something other than "the...
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Of Dreams Deferred, Dead Or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers (Chap. 3 "Langston Hughes and Africa") » Read Now
by Femi Ojo-Ade. 196 pgs.

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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through...
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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through provocative readings of prominent African-American writers, the contributors provide insights into contemporary African-American issues. This collection offers a rare opportunity to view African opinions on what it means to be African American.
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Mule Bone: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's Dream Deferred of an African-American Theatre of the Black Word, in African American Review » Read Now
by Carme Manuel. 16 pgs.

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...Mule Bone: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurstons Dream Deferred...properly belong" (452). The tandem of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston would actually...own...
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"Never Cross the Divide": Reconstructing Langston Hughes's 'Not Without Laughter,' in African American Review » Read Now
by John P. Shields. 13 pgs.

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...the divide": reconstructing Langston Hughess Not Without Laughter...discussions of the period in Langston Hughess life during which he composed...slighted the literary...