The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Author: James Langston Hughes

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 0679426310

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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.


The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 9780826213693

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The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.


The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780826213402

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The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.


Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1990-09-12

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 067972818X

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Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington"; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in "the raffle of night." They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out "wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life." The collection includes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Still Here," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Montage of a Dream Deferred," and "Refugee in America." It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity.


Not Without Laughter

Not Without Laughter

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0486113906

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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.


The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780826213396

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The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.


Langston Hughes: Short Stories

Langston Hughes: Short Stories

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 1997-08-15

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 142992411X

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Stories capturing “the vibrancy of Harlem life, the passions of ordinary black people, and the indignities of everyday racism” by “a great American writer” (Kirkus Reviews). 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 in the decades that preceded the passage of the Civil Rights Act. 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. “[Hughes’s fiction] manifests his ‘wonder at the world.’ As these stories reveal, that wonder has lost little of its shine.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*

Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2022-10-17

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0252054598

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Langston Hughes is well known as a poet, playwright, novelist, social activist, communist sympathizer, and brilliant member of the Harlem Renaissance. He has been referred to as the "Dean of Black Letters" and the "poet low-rate of Harlem." But it was as a columnist for the famous African-American newspaper the Chicago Defender that Hughes chronicled the hopes and despair of his people. For twenty years, he wrote forcefully about international race relations, Jim Crow, the South, white supremacy, imperialism and fascism, segregation in the armed forces, the Soviet Union and communism, and African-American art and culture. None of the racial hypocrisies of American life escaped his searing, ironic prose. This is the first collection of Hughes's nonfiction journalistic writings. For readers new to Hughes, it is an excellent introduction; for those familiar with him, it gives new insights into his poems and fiction.


Works for Children and Young Adults

Works for Children and Young Adults

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2001-12

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 082626381X

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The twelfth volume of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes contains Hughes's collections of biographies for children and young adults - Famous American Negroes, Famous Negro Music Makers, and Famous Negro Heroes of America - gathered together for the first time. In these works, Hughes sought to remedy decades of historical and cultural neglect by telling the stories of African Americans who had made vital contributions to the construction of the American identity. Hughes made clear his commitment to an inclusive and diverse accounting of the achievements of African Americans on American soil, from vernacular expression to high culture, oratory to combat, geographical exploration to intellectual introspection. His lively and dramatic portraits of African Americans such as Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson, and Mahalia Jackson, battling against exclusivity and adversity to achieve their full potential, present a captivating portrait of America. This volume is a valuable record of the emerging African American struggle for civil rights and positive self- determination. It also documents Hughes's interests as he entered the fifth decade of his life and can be read fruitfully alongside his writings for adults at the time, reflecting his sociocultural and political thought.