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Selected Letters of Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385353561
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of Langston Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Author : James Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0679426310
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes written by James Langston Hughes and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

My Dear Boy

Author : Carrie Hughes
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082034639X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book My Dear Boy written by Carrie Hughes and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967

Author : Arna Bontemps
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967 written by Arna Bontemps and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Letters from Langston

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520285336
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Langston written by Langston Hughes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Remember Me to Harlem

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427447
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Remember Me to Harlem written by Langston Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

Author : Charles Baudelaire
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226039285
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire written by Charles Baudelaire and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-02-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undeniably one of the modern world's greatest literary figures, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) left behind a correspondence documenting in intimate detail a life as intense in its extremes as his poetry. This extensive selection of his letters—many translated for the first time into English—depicts a poet divided between despair and elation, thoughts of suicide and intimations of immortality; a man who could write to his mother, "We're obviously destined to love one another, to end our lives as honestly and gently as possible," and say in the next sentence, "I'm convinced that one of us will kill the other"; who courted and then suffered the controversy provoked by his masterpiece, Les Fleurs du mal; who struggled throughout his life with syphilis contracted in his youth, near-intolerable financial restrictions imposed by his stepfather, and conflicting feelings of failure and revolt dating from his school days. Writing to family, friends, and lovers, Baudelaire reveals the incidents and passions that went into his poetry. In letters to editors, idols, and peers—Hugo, Flaubert, Vigny, Wagner, Cladel, among others—he elucidates the methods and concerns of his own art and criticism and comments tellingly on the arts and politics of his day. In all, ranging from childhood to days shortly before his death, these letters comprise a complex and moving portrait of the quintessential poet and his time.

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 067972818X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Langston Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-09-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

Author : Ralph Ellison
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0593730070
Total Pages : 1073 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison written by Ralph Ellison and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great writer’s life and work, his friendships, rivalries, anxieties, and all the questions about identity, art, and the American soul that bedeviled and inspired him until his death. They include early notes to his mother, written as an impoverished college student; lively exchanges with the most distinguished American writers and thinkers of his time, from Romare Bearden to Saul Bellow; and letters to friends and family from his hometown of Oklahoma City, whose influence would always be paramount. These letters are beautifully rendered first-person accounts of Ellison’s life and work and his observations of a changing world, showing his metamorphosis from a wide-eyed student into a towering public intellectual who confronted and articulated America’s complexities.

Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation

Author : S. Graham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230109861
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation written by S. Graham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Panther and the Lash

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949397
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Panther and the Lash written by Langston Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hughes's last collection of poems commemorates the experience of Black Americans in a voice that no reader could fail to hear—the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time. “Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color. Here, Hughes's voice—sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful—is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as "Prime," "Motto," "Dream Deferred," "Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895," "Still Here," "Birmingham Sunday." " History," "Slave," "Warning," and "Daybreak in Alabama."

Hughes: Poems

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hughes: Poems written by Langston Hughes and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-03-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by the African-American poet Langston Hughes.

Letters to America

Author : Jim Daniels
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814325421
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Letters to America written by Jim Daniels and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Ways of White Folks

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030780657X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Ways of White Folks written by Langston Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and ‘30s. One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but these stories showcase his talent as a lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. Stories included in this collection: "Cora Unashamed" "Slave on the Block" "Home" "Passing" "A Good Job Gone" "Rejuvenation Through Joy" "The Blues I'm Playing" "Red-Headed Baby" "Poor Little Black Fellow" "Little Dog" "Berry" "Mother and Child" "One Christmas Eve" "Father and Son"

Not Without Laughter

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113906
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Not Without Laughter written by Langston Hughes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

That Is My Dream!

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Anne Schwartz Books
ISBN 13 : 0399550194
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book That Is My Dream! written by Langston Hughes and published by Anne Schwartz Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 Life of Langston Hughes

Author : Arnold Rampersad
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195146425
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Langston Hughes written by Arnold Rampersad and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.