" Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art in an effort to broaden our appreciation of his contribution to American letters.
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"The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes provides an intricate and multifaceted interpretation of the literary imagination of this American artist." -- Colin Enriquez, Kritikon Litterarum
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In his Soliloquy on Viewing My Life, W.E.B. Du Bois write brilliantly about the verbal form that fuses myth and history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lyrical imagination, tragic time, weary blues, crystal stair, autobiographical self Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Langston Hughes, The Big Sea, Black American, United States, Harlem Renaissance, Ask Your Mama, World War, Jim Crow's Last Stand, Van Vechten, Aunt Sue, The Negro Mother, Lynn Clarisse, New Song, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, Richard Wright, Fields of Wonder, Good Morning Revolution, Horn of Plenty, James Weldon Johnson, Mind of Man, The Ways of White Folks, Walt Whitman, Zora Hurston New!
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In his Soliloquy on Viewing My Life, W.E.B. Du Bois write brilliantly about the verbal form that fuses myth and history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lyrical imagination, tragic time, weary blues, crystal stair, autobiographical self Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Langston Hughes, The Big Sea, Black American, United States, Harlem Renaissance, Ask Your Mama, World War, Jim Crow's Last Stand, Van Vechten, Aunt Sue, The Negro Mother, Lynn Clarisse, New Song, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, Richard Wright, Fields of Wonder, Good Morning Revolution, Horn of Plenty, James Weldon Johnson, Mind of Man, The Ways of White Folks, Walt Whitman, Zora Hurston New!
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- The Big Sea (American Century Series; 65) by Langston Hughes on 24 pages
- Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Writings of Social Protest by Langston Hughes on 7 pages
- Langston Hughes (The Poet and His Critics) by Richard Barksdale on 6 pages
- The Ways of White Folks: Stories by Langston Hughes on 6 pages
- Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes on 5 pages
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- Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series) by Henry L. Gates in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes by Jonathan Scott in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets) by Joseph McLaren on page 75, and Back Matter
- Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature (Horizons in Theory and American Culture) by David R. Jarraway on page 70
- Langston Hughes: The Man, His Art, and His Continuing Influence (Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture) by C. James Trotman on page 167
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