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Langston Hughes
Classics edition with new introduction by Kayo Chingonyi of the essential poems of ‘the poet laureate of black America’ - New Yorker.
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While largely forgotten, Langston Hughes' sophomore volume of poetry, Fine Clothes to the Jew, is considered by many to be his greatest collection of verse. Shifting his focus from the…
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From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and National Book Award finalist, Danez Smith
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Find out how a young boy from the Midwest became one of the most important writers and activists of the Harlem Renaissance in this addition to the #1 New York…
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Steven C. Tracy
The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes's work while revealing how…
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From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works--both polished poems andraw, unfinished, work-in-progress written from 1921-1927--curated by award…
Thomas Mikolyzk
The first provides an alphabetical listing of Hughes’s works, including place and date of publication, and the second describes special collections in America of Hughes’s personal material as well as…
Essays in this volume about African American writer Langston Hughes include a biographical sketch and four essays that survey the critical reception of his work and explore the cultural and…
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W. Jason Miller
A new biography of Langston Hughes, taking in his extraordinary life and canonical works.
"An illustrated picture book of Langston Hughes's classic 1926 poem about a Black boy listening to a relative's shadow-crossed stories of slavery, [which] honors a culture's history keepers"--
Hans Ostrom
The encyclopedia additionally provides entries for numerous topics related to his life and writings, including Marxism, McCarthyism, Modernism, Jazz, and Religion, and for the many individuals who were associated with…
Laurie Leach
This biography traces Hughes’ life and artistic development, from his early years of isolation, which fostered his fierce independence, to his prolific life as a poet, playwright, lyricist, and journalist.
Rebecca Carey Rohan,Rebecca Rohan
A look at the life and time of Langston Hughes.
This volume is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the many facets of Langston Hughes’s career. Reading essays that track his career from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe…
Collected here are four of Hughes’ most poetic and political dramas: Scottsboro Limited , Harvest (also known as Blood on the Fields ), Angelo Herndon Jones , and De Organizer…
A collection of the author’s favorite poetry from published books, private publications, and unpublished manuscripts.
A definitive selection of work by the African-American poet and author features The Negro Speaks of Rivers, The Weary Blues, America, Let America Be American Again, Dream Variations, and UnAmerican…
This title explores the events surrounding the doomed flight of the space shuttle Challenger, providing background information on the event, examining related controversies, and offering personal narratives from those who…
Bonnie Greer
An unforgettable portrait of a man caught up in strange and contradictory times.
Maurice O Wallace
Describes the life of twentieth-century American author Langston Hughes and profiles his major poetic and prose works, also providing a chronology, bibliography, Filmography, and list of further resources.
R. Baxter Miller
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.
This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as…
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American Critical Archives is a series of reference books that provide representative selections of contemporary reviews of the main works of major American authors. This book represents the first comprehensive…
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…
A comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Huges contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form, is arranged chronologically, and features commentary by Hughes’s…
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Jonathan Scott
One of the foremost African American writers of his generation, Langston Hughes waged a tireless campaign against racial oppression that defied the anti-communist currents of cold war America. This work…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Harlem, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s Mulatto, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Investigates the nearly three dozen poems written by Hughes on the subject of lynching to explore its varying effects on survivors, victims, and accomplices as they resisted, accepted, and executed…
David Anthony,Stephanie Kuligowski
Langston Hughes is often thought of as one of the greatest and most influential African American authors. This inspiring biography will have readers enthralled by the life of Hughes as…
Chyina Powell
Describes the life, career, and social impact of poet Langston Hughes. Includes A Closer Look feature –
Hughes award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town. When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a…
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…
First published in 1932, The Dream Keeper is Langston Hughes’s only collection of poems for children. It includes some of Hughes’s best-known, best-loved and most powerful works, poems filled with…
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This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
First published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1930. Previously published with an introduction by Angela Flournoy in Penguin Books 2018.
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Previously published as: The best short stories by Negro writers.
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…
