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Langston Hughes
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For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War-era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces readers to an unlikely team behind a church…
Gather Up Yo' Fine Clothes is Langston Hughes' second book of poetry. Its launch caused controversy, not only because of its original title, Fine Clothes to the Jew, but also…
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Langston Hughes, born February 1, 1901, was a leading Black poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Hughes invented jazz poetry
Regardless of whether he was gay, bisexual, or asexual (all of…
Fourteen stories deal with the interaction of Blacks and whites in 1930s America, including the stories of an ailing musician, a moonlighting student, and a clever charlatan.
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Langston Hughes’s stories about Jesse B. Semple–first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple…
Hughes’s spare yet eloquent tribute to his people has been cherished for generations. Now, acclaimed photographer Smith interprets this beloved poem in vivid sepia photographs that capture the glory, the…
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The poetic wisdom of Hughes merges with visionary illustrations from Collier in this inspirational picture book that carries the promise of equality and creates a breathtaking reminder of unity.
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963–the most comprehensive available–showcases Langston Hughes’s literary blossoming and the development of his personal and…
From Ape to Zebra–with bees, camels, fish, and even a unicorn in between–he paints a picture of each animal with just a few simple, but telling, words.
First published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1930 –Title page verso.
Portrays the violence, despair, courage, and hope characterizing the Black experience in contemporary America.
Poet Langston Hughes’ only novel, a coming-of-age tale that unfolds amid an African-American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society.
Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes’s first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From The Weary Blues…
Gabriela Mistral
Our commemorative bilingual edition of Desolacion celebrates the centennary of the first poetry anthology by the 1945 Nobel laureate.
Hans Ostrom
This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide.Each volume offers:
– A comprehensive overview of the artist’s short fiction…
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a plusieurs decennies sous le titre ""The Mule-Bone A comedy of Negro life in three acts"". Il a maintenant ete traduit…
Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspruenglich vor Jahrzehnten unter dem Titel ""The Mule-Bone A comedy of Negro life in three acts"". Es wurde jetzt von Writat fuer seine franzoesischsprachigen Leser in…
This book chronicles the life of Hughes, who came of age early in the 1920s in the two great playgrounds of the decade: Harlem and Paris.
Vera M. Kutzinski
Kutzinski shows that translating and being translated (and often mistranslated) are as vital to Hughes’s own poetics as they are to understanding the historical network of cultural relations known as…
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Not Without Laughter , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Charlotte Etinde-Crompton,Samuel Willard Crompton
Introduce your readers to a stellar talent. There is no question that Langston Hughes was one of the brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance. A true pioneer, Hughes was one…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Black Nativity , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s I, Too, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Mother to Son, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Slave on the Block, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Tambourines to Glory, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Denise Low,T F Pecore Weso
The great American poet who inspired the Harlem Renaissance spent most of his childhood (1902-1915) in Lawrence, Kansas. This biography includes 60 black and white photos of Lawrence locations connected…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Dream Variation, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper
Various
Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India’s Ganges, Egypt’s Nile, the Yellow River of China - and have nourished modern cities…
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Sarah Wienand
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Throughout many years, African Americans have…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Blues I’m Playing, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s The Negro Speaks of Rivers, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Theme for English B, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story…
A chronological collection of interviews with, and speeches by, the writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) who emerged during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and, over the course of a career…
David E. Chinitz (Professor of English, Professor of English, Loyola University)
Which Sin To Bear? mines Langston Hughes’s creative work, newspaper columns, letters, and unpublished papers to reveal a writer who faced a daunting array of dicey questions and intimidating obstacles…
