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Author | : Arnold Rampersad |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2001-11-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199760861 |
February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. In young adulthood Hughes possessed a nomadic but dedicated spirit that led him from Mexico to Africa and the Soviet Union to Japan, and countless other stops around the globe. Associating with political activists, patrons, and fellow artists, and drawing inspiration from both Walt Whitman and the vibrant Afro-American culture, Hughes soon became the most original and revered of black poets. In the first volumes Afterword, Rampersad looks back at the significant early works Hughes produced, the genres he explored, and offers a new perspective on Hughess lasting literary influence. Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale Universitys Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new generation of readers entrance to the life and mind of one of the twentieth centurys greatest artists.
Author | : Arnold Rampersad |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2002-01-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195146425 |
The second volume in this biography finds Langston Hughes rooting himself in Harlem, receiving stimulation from his rich cultural surroundings. Here he rethought his view of art and radicalism and cultivated relationships with younger, more militant writers such as Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.
Author | : Arnold Rampersad |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780195151602 |
A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0385353561 |
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 his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and—above all—literary. His letters range from those written to family members, notably his father (who opposed Langston’s literary ambitions), and to friends, fellow artists, critics, and readers who sought him out by mail. These figures include personalities such as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Vachel Lindsay, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Kurt Weill, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, and Muhammad Ali. The letters tell the story of a determined poet precociously finding his mature voice; struggling to realize his literary goals in an environment generally hostile to blacks; reaching out bravely to the young and challenging them to aspire beyond the bonds of segregation; using his artistic prestige to serve the disenfranchised and the cause of social justice; irrepressibly laughing at the world despite its quirks and humiliations. Venturing bravely on what he called the “big sea” of life, Hughes made his way forward always aware that his only hope of self-fulfillment and a sense of personal integrity lay in diligently pursuing his literary vocation. Hughes’s voice in these pages, enhanced by photographs and quotations from his poetry, allows us to know him intimately and gives us an unusually rich picture of this generous, visionary, gratifyingly good man who was also a genius of modern American letters.
Author | : Arnold Rampersad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-02 |
Genre | : African American poets |
ISBN | : 9780735102712 |
Author | : Arnold Rampersad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : 9780195054262 |
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486113906 |
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.
Author | : James Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Knopf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0679426310 |
Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Author | : Zora Neale Hurston |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2023-12-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This story begins in Eatonville, Florida, on a Saturday afternoon with Jim and Dave fighting for Daisy's affection. An argument breaks out between two men, and Jim picks up a hock bone from a mule and knocks Dave out. Because of that Jim gets arrested and is held for trial in Joe Clarke's barn. When the trial begins the townspeople are divided along religious lines: Jim's Methodist supporters sit on one side of the church, Dave's Baptist supporters on the other. The issue to be decided at the trial is whether or not Jim has committed a crime.
Author | : Arnold Rampersad |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2002-01-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199882266 |
February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. In young adulthood Hughes possessed a nomadic but dedicated spirit that led him from Mexico to Africa and the Soviet Union to Japan, and countless other stops around the globe. Associating with political activists, patrons, and fellow artists, and drawing inspiration from both Walt Whitman and the vibrant Afro-American culture, Hughes soon became the most original and revered of black poets. In the first volume's Afterword, Rampersad looks back at the significant early works Hughes produced, the genres he explored, and offers a new perspective on Hughes's lasting literary influence. Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new generation of readers entrance to the life and mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists.