A historical guide to Langston Hughes
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A historical guide to Langston Hughes
（Historical guides to American authors）
Oxford University Press, 2004
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ISBN 9780195144338
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Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate, intelligent, and socially responsible art. In this volume, Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics to produce an interdisciplinary approach to the important historical and cultural elements reflected in Hughes's work. Their essays, all previously unpublished, place Hughes in the context of Harlem, his preferred geographical and spiritual home base, as well as the larger political, social, musical, and artistic milieu of his rapidly changing times. They examine Hughes's negotiation of his own moral and ethical ground in a complex, sometimes hostile world, and demonstrate the remarkable triumph of a sensitive, creative human being who refused to be overwhelmed by the forces of discrimination, pessimism, and bitterness that claimed so many writers of his generation. This volume, with its historical essays, brief biography, and illustrated chronology, provides a concise yet authoritative portrait of one of America's and the world's most beloved writers.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195144345
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Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate, intelligent, and socially responsible art. In this volume, Steven C. Tracy has gathered a broad range of critics to produce an interdisciplinary approach to the important historical and cultural elements reflected in the variety of genres in which Hughes worked. Through the lenses of creative writers, musicians, social activists and critics, this collection explores
the ways that Hughes transformed American literature and society. Rooting his aesthetic in the art and values of Black folk, Hughes mediated the conflicting artistic demands of both the literati and the masses, demonstrating the social and spiritual power of art. Contributors to this volume place
Hughes in the context of Harlem, his preferred geographical and spiritual home base, as well as the larger political, social, musical, and artistic milieu of his rapidly changing times. Their essays examine Hughes's negotiation of his own moral and ethical ground in a complex, sometimes hostile world, and demonstrate the remarkable triumph of a sensitive, creative human being who refused to be overwhelmed by the forces of discrimination, pessimism, and bitterness that claimed so many writers of
his generation. An essentially very private individual, Hughes nonetheless rejected difficulty, obscurity, and the ivory tower in order to generate a very public life and art. This volume, with its historical essays, brief biography, and illustrated chronology, provides a concise yet authoritative
portrait of one of America's and the world's most beloved writers.
Table of Contents
Steven C. Tracy: Introduction: Hughes in Our Time
1: R. Baxter Miller: Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: A Brief Biography
2: James de Jongh: The Poet Speaks of Places: A Close Reading of Langston Hughes's Literary Use of Place
3: Steven C. Tracy: Langston Hughes and Afro-American Vernacular Music
4: Joyce A. Joyce: Hughes and Twentieth-Century Genderracial Issues
5: James Smethurst: The Adventures of a Social Poet: Langston Hughes from the Popular Front to Black Power
6: Illustrated Chronology
7: Dolan Hubbard: Bibliographical Essay
8: Contributors
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