Langston Hughes
Title:
Langston Hughes
Author:
Miller, R. Baxter.
ISBN:
9781429837248
9781429837729
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013.
Physical Description:
xiv, 320 p. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Critical insights
Critical insights.
Contents:
On Langston Hughes / Biography of Langston Hughes / The critical reception of Langston Hughes, 1924-2012 / The "Diamond stair" within : black female inspiration in Hughes's poetry / History and historicity in the work of Langston Hughes / In the shadow of the blues : aesthetic discoveries by Ma Rainey, Langston Hughes, and Sterling A. Brown / Reassessing Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance : toward an African American aesthetic / The creative voice in the autobiographies of Langston Hughes / I'm lonely: I'll build me a family : functional family relationships in the life and art of Langston Hughes / Hughes and lynching / The blues I'm not playing : Langston Hughes in the 1930s / Hughes's stories and the test of faith / Madam Alberta K. Johnson and the women of the "simple" tales / Without respect for gender : damnable inference in "blessed assurance" / Inspired by Hughes : Hughes's dramatic legacy in the twenty-first century / "Yo tambien soy America" : Latin American receptions of Langston Hughes's American dream / Langston Hughes, modernism, and modernity
Abstract:
Poet, playwright, and short story writer Langston Hughes remains perhaps one of the most well known African American writers of the twentieth century. This volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the poet laureate of Harlem. --from publisher description
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