Langston Hughes : The Man, His Art, and His Continuing Influence

ISBN-13: 9780815317630 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 200 str.

Arnold Rampersad; PH.D. C. James Trotman

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From a March 1992 conference at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, 17 essays examine the life, work, and legacy of African-American writer and activist Hughes (1902-67). Many of the contributors knew him personally. They discuss his pre-eminent role in the Harlem Renaissance; issues of race, cultur

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Partial Contents: Langston Hughes: The Man, The Writer, and His Continuing Influence, Arnold Rampersad * Whose Sweet Angel Child? Blues Woman, Langston Hughes, and Writing During the Harlem Renaissance, Cheryl A. Wall * The Physics of Change in Father and Son, R. Baxter Miller * Achieving Universality Through Simple Truths, Akiba Sullivan Harper * Reading the Woman's Face in Langston Hughes's and Roy DeCarava's Sweet Flypaper of Life, Thadious Davis * For All the Kids to Come: The Troubled Island by William Grant Still and Langston Hughes, C. James Trotman * Race, Culture, and Gender in Langston Hughes's The Way of White Folks, Joyce Ann Joyce * Langston Hughes: Poetry, Blues, and Gospel, Stephen Tracy

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C. James Trotman, Arnold Rampersad, Emery Wimbish