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Transcendence in Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Author : Rebecca Rasche
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638766977
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Transcendence in Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" written by Rebecca Rasche and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-11-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Amerikanische Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: Harlem Renaissance, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Hughes had always been a part of small black communities, to whom he was strongly attached (Black Renaissance Reader 1251). He felt a strong racial pride, although his father, according to Hughes, hated himself for being black, and although Hughes experienced the vilest forms of discrimination (St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture). One incident in Hughes' childhood shaped his point of view profoundly: During the McCarthy hearings, Hughes reported that his schoolmates stoned him on his way home from school. But one of his schoolmates, a very small, white youth, protected him. He had never forgotten this youngster standing up for him against these other first graders who were throwing stones at him. He goes on to indicate that he had always felt from that time on that there are white people in America who can be an African American's friend. Hughes also emphasized the fact that he never said anything to create a division among whites or African Americans. For that reason I am of the opinion that Hughes' poetry never became a bitter undercurrent, but was shaped by both his positive and negative experiences. According to Karen Jackson Ford, the one thing many readers of "twentieth-century American poetry can say about Langston Hughes is that he has known rivers" (Do right to write right: Langston Hughes′s aesthetics of simplicity). "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" became famous for the elevated, declamatory mood, mythic scale, and compelling cadenced repetitions. But however beautiful the poem's cadences, it is remembered primarily because it is Hughes′s most frequently anthologized work: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is one of Hughes′ most atypical poems, and nonetheless it defined his reputation (Do right to writ

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949400
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 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 2011-10-26 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.

Race in The Poetry of Langston Hughes

Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737770635
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Race in The Poetry of Langston Hughes written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative edition explores the poetry of Langston Hughes through the lens of race. Coverage includes an examination of Hughes's life and influences; a look at key ideas related to race in Hughes's poetry, including the influence of African-American music, the use of poetry to address racial problems, and the politics of Hughes's anti-lynching poems; and contemporary perspectives on race, such as the decline of civil rights reform and the role of hip-hop in shaping black music.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Negro Speaks of Rivers written by Langston Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes

Author : R Miller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183030
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes written by R Miller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters. Arguing that readers often miss the complexity of Hughes's work because of its seeming accessibility, Miller begins with a discussion of the writer's auto-biography, an important yet hitherto neglected key to his imagination. Moving on to consider the subtle resonances of his life in the varied genres over which his imagination "wandered," Miller finds a constant symbiotic bond between the historical and the lyrical. The range of Hughes's artistic vision is revealed in his depiction of Black women, his political stance, his lyric and tragi-comic modes. This is one of the first studies to apply recent methods of literary analysis, including formalist, structuralist, and semiotic criticism, to the work of a Black American writer. Miller not only affirms in Hughes's work the peculiar qualities of Black American culture but provides a unifying conception of his art and identifies the primary metaphors lying at its heart. Here is a fresh and coherent reading of the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest voices, a reinterpretation that renews our appreciation not only of Black American text and heritage but of the literary imagination itself.

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

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826213396
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940 written by Langston Hughes and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Poems of Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679764089
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-10-31 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine). Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language. The collection spans five decades, and is comprised of 868 poems (nearly 300 of which never before appeared in book form) with annotations by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Alongside such famous works as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes Hughes's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as "Goodbye Christ" that were once suppressed.

Langston Hughes

Author : Richard Kenneth Barksdale
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes written by Richard Kenneth Barksdale and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1977 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Meaning of Rivers

Author : T. S. McMillin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 158729978X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Rivers written by T. S. McMillin and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about the nature of literature, The Meaning of Rivers introduces readers to the rich world of flowing water and some of the different ways in which American writers have used rivers to understand the world through which these waters flow. Embracing a hybrid, essayistic form—part literary theory, part cultural history, and part fieldwork—The Meaning of Rivers connects the humanities to other disciplines and scholarly work to the land. Whether developing a theory of palindromes or reading works of American literature as varied as Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and James Dickey’s Deliverance, McMillin urges readers toward a transcendental retracing of their own interpretive encounters. The nature of texts and the nature of “nature” require diverse and versatile interpretation; interpretation requires not only depth and concentration but also imaginative thinking, broad-mindedness, and engaged connection-making. By taking us upstream as well as down, McMillin draws attention to the potential of rivers for improving our sense of place and time.

Langston Hughes

Author : Joseph Nazel
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780870679377
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes written by Joseph Nazel and published by Holloway House Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, the only child of James and Carrie Hughes, Langston Hughes survived a difficult and unhappy childhood to become one of the most important African-American writers of the twentieth century. At age nineteen, his first literary efforts were published in The Brownies' Book and The Crisis. He moved to New York in 1921 and quickly became one of the leading figures in the Harlem Renaissance, though he never settled permanently in Harlem but restlessly moved from place to place. His first important volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published in 1926. Although his first play, Mulatto, was a failure, later works established him as an important voice in the theater. Because he had spent time in the 1930s in the Soviet Union writing for Izvestia, he was investigated by the McCarthy Committee in the 1950s. Yet in the early 1960s, the U.S. State Department made him a cultural ambassador to Africa. Book jacket.

Hughes: Poems

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375405518
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 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 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure-an essential collection of the work of a poet whose words have entered our common language.

Langston Hughes

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402718458
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes written by Langston Hughes and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.

A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes

Author : Steven Carl Tracy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195144345
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Historical Guide to Langston Hughes written by Steven Carl Tracy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to generations of readers and writers seeking a passionate and socially responsible art. In this text, Steven Tracy has gathered a range of critics to produce an interdisciplinary approach to the historical and cultural elements reflected in Hughes's work.

The Weary Blues

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Digireads.com
ISBN 13 : 9781420980776
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Weary Blues written by Langston Hughes and published by Digireads.com. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Weary Blues" is the powerful and ground-breaking collection of poetry by American author Langston Hughes. An important contribution to the growing Harlem Renaissance art movement, "The Weary Blues" was Hughes' first poetry collection and was published in 1926 when the author was only 24, though some of the poems had appeared earlier in magazines. An immediate critical success, Hughes created a new form of poetry, called jazz or blues poetry, with his evocative and lyrical descriptions of the sounds and sights of a blues musician playing live. Hughes addresses the pressing social issues of racism, inequality, and political oppression while also capturing and celebrating the beauty and uniqueness of the African-American community in Harlem. In addition to the titular poem, "The Weary Blues" includes enduring classics of American poetry such as "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Hughes' inspiring call for equality that begins "I, too, sing America". These poems, as well as the shorter and more exuberant works, remain as relevant and powerful as when they were first written. This deeply personal, sensitive, and often melancholy collection established Hughes as one of the most important writers of the twentieth-century and continues to be celebrated and enjoyed by readers the world over. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Let America Be America Again

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192667106
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Let America Be America Again written by Langston Hughes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes. Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record of a remarkable man talking. In texts ranging from early interviews in the 1920s, when he was a busboy and scribbling out poems on hotel napkins, to major speeches, such as his keynote address at the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966, Hughes's words further amplify the international reputation he established over the course of five decades through more widely-published and well-known poems, stories, novels, and plays. In these interviews, speeches, and conversational essays, the writer referred to by admirers as the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race" and the "Dean of Black Letters" articulated some of his most powerful critiques of fascism, economic and racial oppression, and compromised democracy. It was also through these genres that Hughes spoke of the responsibilities of the Black artist, documented the essential contributions of Black people to literature, music, and theatre, and chronicled the substantial challenges that Black artists face in gaining recognition, fair pay, and professional advancement. And it was through these pieces, too, that Hughes built on his celebrated work in other literary genres to craft an original, tragic-comic persona—a Blues poet in exile, forever yearning for and coming back to a home, a nation, that nevertheless continues to disappoint and harm him. A global traveler, Hughes's words, "Let America be America Again" were, throughout his career, always followed by a caveat: "America never was America to me."

Langston Hughes

Author : Christine M. Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894908156
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes written by Christine M. Hill and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and career of this gifted writer. It discusses the many obstacles, including racism, poverty and loneliness, he had to overcome to achieve his dream of becoming a successful writer.