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Letters from Langston

Langston Hughes,Evelyn Louise Crawford,MaryLouise Patterson
Letters from Langston Book PDF

Author : Langston Hughes,Evelyn Louise Crawford,MaryLouise Patterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520285330

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Letters from Langston by Langston Hughes,Evelyn Louise Crawford,MaryLouise Patterson Pdf

Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, HughesÕs poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics. Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window into a unique, self-created world where Hughes lived at ease. This distinctive volume collects the stories of Hughes and his friends in an era of uncertainty and reveals their visions of an idealized worldÑone without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression.

My Dear Boy

Carrie Hughes
My Dear Boy Book PDF

Author : Carrie Hughes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780820346397

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My Dear Boy by Carrie Hughes Pdf

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light. Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell explain that scholars have neglected the vital role that correspondence between Carrie Hughes and her son Langston--Harlem Renaissance icon, renowned poet, playwright, fiction writer, autobiographer, and essayist--played in his work. The more than 120 heretofore unexamined letters presented here are a veritable treasure trove of insights into the relationship between mother Carrie and her renowned son Langston. Until now, a scholarly consensus had begun to emerge, accepting the idea of their lives and his art as simple and transparent. But as Williams and Tidwell argue, this correspondence is precisely where scholars should start in order to understand the underlying complexity in Carrie and Langston's relationship. By employing Family Systems Theory for the first time in Hughes scholarship, they demonstrate that it is an essential heuristic for analyzing the Hughes family and its influence on his work. The study takes the critical truism about Langston's reticence to reveal his inner self and shows how his responses to Carrie were usually not in return letters but, instead, in his created art. Thus My Dear Boy reveals the difficult negotiations between family and art that Langston engaged in as he attempted to sustain an elusive but enduring artistic reputation.

Remember Me to Harlem

Langston Hughes,Carl Van Vechten
Remember Me to Harlem Book PDF

Author : Langston Hughes,Carl Van Vechten
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307427441

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Remember Me to Harlem by Langston Hughes,Carl Van Vechten Pdf

Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer, and photographer whose ardent support of black artists was peerless. Despite their differences — Van Vechten was forty-four to Hughes twenty-two when they met–Hughes’ and Van Vechten’s shared interest in black culture lead to a deeply-felt, if unconventional friendship that would span some forty years. Between them they knew everyone — from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright, and their letters, lovingly and expertly collected here for the first time, are filled with gossip about the antics of the great and the forgotten, as well as with talk that ranged from race relations to blues lyrics to the nightspots of Harlem, which they both loved to prowl. It’s a correspondence that, as Emily Bernard notes in her introduction, provides “an unusual record of entertainment, politics, and culture as seen through the eyes of two fascinating and irreverent men.

Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967

Arna Bontemps,Langston Hughes
Arna Bontemps Langston Hughes Letters 1925 1967 Book PDF

Author : Arna Bontemps,Langston Hughes
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015019475824

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Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967 by Arna Bontemps,Langston Hughes Pdf

The work of Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes is a celebration of the triumphant creative spirit in African-American life. From the welding of their friendship in 1925 until Hughes's death in 1967, this volume gathers the best of the forty-two years of correspondence between them. The first letters, written in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, witness the struggle of two young writers searching for a voice and an identity. By 1941, both Bontemps and Hughes had achieved a certain degree of success, and had become increasingly involved in racial and social struggles. Finally, in the period between 1959 and 1967, we see them react to the civil rights movement. This fascinating collection makes an invaluable contribution to the understanding of twentieth century American culture and one of its most vital components, the African-American heritage which these two correspondents did so much to create. --From book cover.

Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation

S. Graham,J. Walters
Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation Book PDF

Author : S. Graham,J. Walters
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230109865

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Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation by S. Graham,J. Walters Pdf

This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it.

Selected Letters of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes Book PDF

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780385353564

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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

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.

Zora Neale Hurston

Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Zora Neale Hurston Book PDF

Author : Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307430366

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Zora Neale Hurston by Carla Kaplan, Ph.D. Pdf

“ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive. Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book. Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston’s life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities that were important to it. From her enrollment at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy in 1917, to correspondence with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West and Alain Locke, to a final query letter to her publishers in 1959, Hurston’s spirited correspondence offers an invaluable portrait of a remarkable, irrepressible talent.

Vintage Hughes

Langston Hughes
Vintage Hughes Book PDF

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015058068837

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Vintage Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

Presents selected works from "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes," and "The Ways of White Folks."

Letters of Note

Shaun Usher
Letters of Note Book PDF

Author : Shaun Usher
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838856168

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Letters of Note by Shaun Usher Pdf

Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.

Selected Letters of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes Book PDF

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780375413797

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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes Pdf

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.

Letters to America

Jim Daniels
Letters to America Book PDF

Author : Jim Daniels
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814325424

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Letters to America by Jim Daniels Pdf

A collection of poems that explore the issues surrounding race relations in American society, told from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Hispanic, and white cultures.

That Is My Dream!

Langston Hughes
That Is My Dream Book PDF

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399550195

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That Is My Dream! by Langston Hughes Pdf

“Dream Variation,” one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares, the acclaimed creator of Float. To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done…. Langston Hughes's inspiring and timeless message of pride, joy, and the dream of a better life is brilliantly and beautifully interpreted in Daniel Miyares's gorgeous artwork. Follow one African-American boy through the course of his day as the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice comes into vivid focus. But the boy dreams of a different life—one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun. Hughes's powerful vision, brought joyously to life by Daniel Miyares, is as relevant—and necessary—today as when it was first written.

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

James Langston Hughes
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Book PDF

Author : James Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780679426318

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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by James Langston Hughes Pdf

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.

Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

Yuval Taylor
Zora and Langston A Story of Friendship and Betrayal Book PDF

Author : Yuval Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393243925

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Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor Pdf

A Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography “A complete pleasure to read.” —Lisa Page, Washington Post Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of America’s greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other, they helped launch a radical journal, Fire!! Later, meeting by accident in Alabama, they became close as they traveled together—Hurston interviewing African Americans for folk stories, Hughes getting his first taste of the deep South. By illuminating their lives, work, competitiveness, and ambitions, Yuval Taylor savvily details how their friendship and literary collaborations dead-ended in acrimonious accusations.

Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes
Not Without Laughter Book PDF

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486113906

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Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Pdf

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.