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Author | : Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 1996-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826260683 |
The "Simple" stories, Langston Hughes's satirical pieces featuring Harlem's Jesse B. Semple, have been lauded as Hughes's greatest contribution to American fiction. In Not So Simple, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper provides the first full historical analysis of the Simple stories. Harper traces the evolution and development of Simple from his 1943 appearance in Hughes's weekly Chicago Defender column through his 1965 farewell in the New York Post. Drawing on correspondence and manuscripts of the stories, Harper explores the development of the Simple collections, from Simple Speaks His Mind (1950) to Simple's Uncle Sam (1965), providing fresh and provocative perspectives on both Hughes and the characters who populate his stories. Harper discusses the nature of Simple, Harlem's "everyman", and the way in which Hughes used his character both to teach fellow Harlem residents about their connection to world events and to give black literature a hero whose "day-after-day heroism" would exemplify greatness. She explores the psychological, sociological, and literary meanings behind the Simple stories, and suggests ways in which the stories illustrate lessons of American history and political science. She also examines the roles played by women in these humorously ironic fictions. Ultimately, Hughes's attitudes as an author are measured against the views of other prominent African American writers. Demonstrating the richness and complexity of this Langston Hughes character and the Harlem he inhabited. Not So Simple makes an important contribution to the study of American literature.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1997-08-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 142992411X |
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 artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374521336 |
A selection of the author's favorite stories chosen from three of his books: "Simple Speaks his Mind," "Simple Takes a Wife," and "Simple Stakes a Claim."
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 0826263852 |
Author | : Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780195092622 |
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author | : Morris Edmund Speare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Short stories |
ISBN | : 9780671485146 |
Author | : Ryan G. Van Cleave |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : College readers |
ISBN | : 9780321117243 |
Behind the Short Story provides the inside scoop on how a successful story emerges from first to final draft with illuminating short stories and specific craft advice from 27 of America's best short story authors and fiction-writing teachers. The text compiles critical analysis techniques, writing exercises, representative stories, and useful insights into the writing process from award-winning, student-oriented teachers who are also successful short story writers. Covering the process of writing and elements of fiction at the same time, unique craft commentaries explore the decisions writers make on issues of structure, character, setting, etc. and offer practical suggestions for pre-writing, drafting, and revising.
Author | : Robert G. Hays |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lauri Kubuitsile |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : African fiction (English) |
ISBN | : 1920397310 |
The bed, dressed in hand sewn quilt or threadbare blanket, may in and of itself be memorable, but it is what happens in the bed - the sex and lovemaking, the dreams, the reading, the nightmares, the rest, giving birth and dying - which give 'bed' special meaning. Whether a bed is shared with a book, a child, a pet or a partner, whether lovers lie in ecstasy or indifference, whether 'bed' relates to intimacy or betrayal, it is memories and recollections of 'bed', in whatever form, which have triggered the writing of these thirty stories by women from southern Africa. Well known writers Joanne Fedler, Sarah Lotz, Arja Salafranca, Rosemund Handler and Liesl Jobson will delight, but you will discover here new writers from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia, each with a unique voice as they cast light on the intimate lives of women living in this part of the world and the possibilities that are both available to and denied them. The BED BOOK of short stories - some quirky and tender, others traumatic or macabre - is the perfect companion to take to bed with you, to keep you reading long into the night.