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Title Langston Hughes : a documentary volume / edited by Christopher C. De Santis
Published Detroit : Thomson Gale, ©2005
©2005
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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 458 pages) : illustrations
Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 315
Dictionary of literary biography (Online)
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 315
Contents Plan of the Series -- Works by Langston Hughes -- A Poet of the People: 1902 -- 1929 -- Living with Mary Langston-from Hughes, The Big Sea: An Autobiography -- New Arrangements-from The Big Sea -- Hughes on Central High School-from The Big Sea -- Facsimile: First page of Hughes's short story in the Central High School Monthly -- Living the Blues -- I've Known Rivers-from The Big Sea -- Facsimile: A copy of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to James Nathaniel Hughes Jr., 19 December 1921 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to R.J.M. Danley, 14 May 1922 -- A Letter from Africa-Hughes letter to Carrie Clark, 21 July 1923 -- Remembering a Paris Romance-from Anne Marie Coussey letter to Hughes, 3 June 1926 -- Our Wonderful Society: Washington-Hughes, Opportunity, August 1927 -- An Award-Winning Poem-Hughes, "The Weary Blues" -- A First Book
"A Brilliant and Shockingly Accurate Expose": Review of Simple Speaks His Mind-John W. Parker, Journal of Negro History, January 1951 -- That Not So Simple Sage, Mr. Simple: Review of Simple Takes a Wife-Arna Bontemps, New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 14 June 1953 -- Not So Simple: Review of Simple Takes a Wife-Abner Berry, Masses and Mainstream, September 1953 -- Simple is Back-Martha MacGregor, New York Post, 15 September 1957 -- Scenes from Simply Heavenly-from Langston Hughes and David Martin, Simply Heavenly, 1958 -- Poetry and Prose -- "A Sensitive and Fascinating Work": Review of Montage of a Dream Deferred-Arthur P. Davis, Journal of Negro History, April 1951 -- Poetry of Harlem in Transition: Review of Montage of a Dream Deferred-John W. Parker, Phylon, Second Quarter, 1951 -- Professor-from Hughes, Laughing to Keep from Crying, 1952
"Bright Before Us": The Legacy of Langston Hughes -- Views from the Sixties -- The Legacy of Langston Hughes-Ted Poston, New York Post Magazine, 27 May 1967 -- The Man Who Created 'Simple'-Keneth Kinnamon, The Nation, 4 December 1967 -- "A Vital Contribution": Review of The Panther and the Lash-W. Edward Farrison, College Language Association Journal, March 1968 -- Langston Hughes' Last Volume of Verse: Review of The Panther and the Lash-Theodore R. Hudson, College Language Association Journal, June 1968 -- Langston Hughes: He Spoke of Rivers-Arna Bontemps, Freedomways, Spring 1968 -- Langston Hughes-An Inspirer of Young Writers-Lindsay Patterson, Freedomways, Spring 1968 -- Looking Back -- A Chat with Langston Hughes: Spring, 1960-Richard K. Barksdale, Langston Hughes Review, Fall 1983 -- Langston/Blues Griot-Jerry W. Ward Jr., Langston Hughes Review, Fall 1993
"The Simplicity of Great Art": Review of Not Without Laughter-Sterling A. Brown, Opportunity, September 1930 -- Greetings to Soviet Workers-Hughes, New Masses, December 1930 -- The Story of Mule Bone -- A Tragedy of Negro Life-Henry Louis Gates Jr., in Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life -- Facsimile: Title page for the typescript of Mule Bone -- "Flinging a Final Mule Bone"-Hughes letter to Carl Van Vechten, 4 February 1931 -- Facsimile: First page of the Mule Bone typescript -- Haiti and the South -- Hughes letter to Amy Spingarn, 14 May 1931 -- People without Shoes-Hughes, New Masses, October 1931 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to James Nathaniel Hughes Jr., 30 June 1931 -- Reading at Coulter Academy-from Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey -- Financing a Reading Tour-Hughes letter to James Weldon Johnson, 14 August 1931
Amiri Baraka on Langston Hughes-17 October 1985 interview, Langston Hughes Review, Winter 1997 -- James Baldwin on Langston Hughes-14 February 1986 interview, Langston Hughes Review, Winter 1997 -- Langston Hughes and Haiti-Maurice A. Lubin, Langston Hughes Review, Spring 1987 -- Hughes's Literary Reputation in France-Michel Fabre, Langston Hughes Review, Spring 1987 -- Gathering Up Every Word of the Prolific Langston Hughes-Jo Thomas, The New York Times, 31 July 2001
Another Revealing Facet of the Harlem Scene: Review of Tambourines to Glory-John W. Parker, Phylon, Spring 1959 -- Langston Hughes' Tambourines to Glory-LeRoi Jones, Jazz Review, June 1959 -- Facsimile: First page of Hughes's reader's report for Simon and Schuster -- Sermons and Blues: Review of Selected Poems of Langston Hughes-James Baldwin, The New York Times Book Review, 29 March 1959 -- Facsimile: Hughes postcard to Baldwin, 29 March 1959 -- "Enduring Poems": Review of Selected Poems of Langston Hughes-John Henrik Clarke, Chicago Defender, 4 July 1959 -- Manhattan Arts Theatre Citation to Langston Hughes, 3 May 1959 -- Searching for a Star-Hughes letter to Pearl Bailey, 6 December 1959 -- The Last Years: 1960 -- 22 May 1967 -- A-Climbin' On -- Remarks in Acceptance of 45th Spingarn Medal-Hughes, 26 June 1960 -- No Crystal Stair-Hughes, "Mother to Son," The Crisis, December 1922
Books and Things: Review of Laughing to Keep from Crying-Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune, 26 March 1952 -- Facsimile: Draft of a poem Hughes published in Beloit Poetry Journal Chapbook -- Black & Bubbling: Review of Laughing to Keep from Crying-Arna Bontemps, The Saturday Review of Literature, 5 April 1952 -- "The Why and Wherefore": Review of The Sweet Flypaper of Life-Almena Lomax, Los Angeles Tribune, 11 November 1955 -- Hughes' I Wonder as I Wander: Reveries of an Itinerant Poet-Jonathan F. Beecher, Harvard Crimson, 13 December 1956 -- "A Personality Without Pretense": Review of I Wonder As I Wander-J. Saunders Redding, Baltimore Afro-American, 12 January 1957 -- Odyssey of a Literary Man: Review of I Wonder As I Wander-Nick Aaron Ford, Phylon, First Quarter, 1957 -- Facsimile: Telegram exchange between bandleader Duke Ellington and Hughes, September 1958
Critic, Translator, and Teacher -- Some Practical Observations: A Colloquy-Hughes interview, Phylon, Winter 1950 -- Facsimile: Edward H. Dodd Jr. letter to Hughes, 25 June 1952 -- The Famous Negro Books-Hughes letter to Dodd, 28 June 1952 -- Introduction to Uncle Tom's Cabin-Hughes, 1952 -- Hughes letter to Arna Bontemps, 18 February 1953 -- Facsimile: Page from a draft of Hughes's Famous American Negroes -- Facsimile: Carl Murphy letter to Hughes, 18 September 1953 -- From Harlem to Paris-Hughes, New York Times Book Review, 26 February 1956 -- Introduction to Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, 1957 -- "Even the Simplicity Defeats Him"-Edwin Honig, "Poet of Womanhood," The Saturday Review of Literature, 22 March 1958 -- Introduction to Pudd'nhead Wilson-Hughes, 1959 -- The Simple Story -- Not So Simple: Review of Simple Speaks His Mind-Lloyd L. Brown, Masses and Mainstream, June 1950
Facsimile: Draft for Hughes's short piece on Miles Davis -- Jazz Is a Marching Jubilee: Review of Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz-Rudi Blesh, New York Herald Tribune Books, 26 November 1961 -- "A Book of Social Protest": Review of Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz-John Henrik Clarke, Freedomways, Winter 1962 -- Foreword: Who Is Simple?-Hughes, The Best of Simple, 1961 -- "A Later Day Aesop": Review of The Best of Simple-Clarke, Freedomways, Winter 1962 -- Foreword to Poems from Black Africa-Hughes, 1963 -- Mr. Hughes' Shadings: Review of Something in Common and Other Stories-William Kirtz, Quincy (Mass.) Patriot-Ledger, 17 April 1963 -- Reachin' Landings -- Introduction to Five Plays by Langston Hughes-Webster Smalley, 1963 -- A Writer's Responsibility-Hughes, "The Task of the Negro Writer as Artist," Negro Digest, April 1965
Facsimile: First page from Hughes's song "Freedom Road," 1942 -- My America-Hughes, in What the Negro Wants, 1944 -- Down Under in Harlem-Hughes, The New Republic, 27 March 1944 -- From Jim Crow's Last Stand to One-Way Ticket -- "Fearlessly Presenting His Case": Review of Jim Crow's Last Stand-Carter G. Woodson, Journal of Negro History, October 1943 -- A Proposal for an Anthology-Hughes letter to Countee Cullen, 23 July 1943 -- Facsimile: Drafts of poem "Trumpet Player: 52nd Street," June 1945 -- Hughes letter to Arna Bontemps, 2 May 1946 -- Facsimile: Pearl S. Buck cable to Hughes, 29 May 1946 -- The Ceaseless Rings of Walt Whitman-Hughes, preface, I Hear the People Singing: Selected Poems of Walt Whitman, 1946 -- Langston Hughes Fulfills Promise of Great Destiny in New Book: Review of Fields of Wonder-Russell and Rowena Jelliffe, Cleveland News Week-End Review, 29 March 1947
Facsimile: First page of an essay Hughes wrote on sexual stereotypes, 4 May 1963 -- "It'll Be Me": The Voice of Langston Hughes: Review of Five Plays by Langston Hughes-Doris E. Abramson, Massachusetts Review, Autumn 1963 -- Continued Controversy-"4 Churches Hit Poet's WSU Visit," The Wichita Eagle, 26 April 1965 -- Still Climbin' -- The Twenties: Harlem and Its Negritude-Hughes, African Forum, 1966 -- "Too Serious to Laugh ... Too Philosophical to Cry": Review of Simple's Uncle Sam-W. Edward Farrison, College Language Association Journal, March 1966 -- Taos in Harlem: An Interview with Langston Hughes-Richard Rive, Contrast, 1967 -- Introduction to The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present-Hughes, 1967 -- Facsimile: Instructions Hughes prepared for his memorial service -- Langston Hughes Dies-The Poet of Harlem-Joseph Mancini, New York Post, 23 May 1967
Hughes letter to Carl Van Vechten, 17 May 1925 -- Facsimile: Blanche Knopf letter to Hughes, 18 May 1925 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Claude McKay, 25 July 1925 -- Facsimile: W.E.B. Du Bois letter to Hughes, 6 August 1925 -- On Being Discovered-from The Big Sea -- Introducing Langston Hughes to the Reader-Van Vechten, preface for The Weary Blues -- Poet on Poet: Review of The Weary Blues-Countee Cullen, Opportunity, February 1926 -- Euterpe Learns the Charleston: Review of The Weary Blues-Theophilus Lewis, The Messenger, March 1926 -- To Midnight Nan at Leroy's-from The Weary Blues -- The Jazz Band's Sob: Review of The Weary Blues-DuBose Heyward, New York Herald Tribune Books, 1 August 1926 -- Off with the Black-Face!: Review of The Weary Blues-James Rorty, New Masses, October 1926 -- An Argument of Art and Race -- The Negro-Art Hokum-George S. Schuyler, The Nation, 16 June 1926
Hughes letter to Thurman, 29 July 1929 -- Facsimile: Page from Hughes's journal, 15 July 1929 -- Turning to the World: 1930 -- 1939 -- Laughin' Just to Keep from Cryin' -- Patron and Friend-from The Big Sea -- Facsimile: Page from the second draft of Not Without Laughter -- "Next Thing to Camelot": Introduction to Not Without Laughter-Arna Bontemps, 1969 -- Guitar-from Hughes, Not Without Laughter -- The Break with Mason-from The Big Sea -- A Little Colored Boy Grows Up: Review of Not Without Laughter-Mary Ross, New York Herald Tribune Books, 27 July 1930 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to James Weldon Johnson, 12 July 1930 -- "An Enviable First Performance": Review of Not Without Laughter-Wallace Thurman, New York Evening Post, 28 July 1930 -- Facsimile: Knopf publicity department letter to Hughes, 28 July 1930
Hughes on Negro Art-Hughes, "Negro Art and-Its Audience" The New Sign, 26 September 1931, and "Negro Art and-Publicity Value," The New Sign, 3 October 1931 -- Sterling A. Brown letter to Hughes, 7 December 1931 -- Hughes letter to Mary McLeod Bethune, 15 February 1932 -- Facsimile: Hughes tribute to Vachel Lindsay, 18 January 1932 -- Brown America in Jail: Kilby-Hughes, Opportunity, June 1932 -- Facsimile: Hughes cable to Wallace Thurman, 12 March 1932 -- Writing for Children -- Sandburg of Negro Verse: Review of The Dream Keeper-Horace Gregory, New York Evening Post, 2 August 1932 -- By the Sea-from Hughes and Arna Bontemps, Popo and Fifina, 1932 -- Books and the Negro Child-Hughes, Children's Library Yearbook, 1932 -- The Soviet Union and Asia -- Hughes letter to Amy Spingarn, 20 March 1933 -- Facsimile: Press release, 31 August 1932 -- Moscow and Me-Hughes, International Literature, July 1933
My Adventures as a Social Poet-Hughes, Phylon, Third Quarter 1947 -- Facsimile: "Freedom Train," in the October 1947 issue of Our World -- Facsimile: Draft of part of Montage of a Dream Deferred, 7 August 1948 -- Old Forms, Old Rhythms, Old Words: Review of One-Way Ticket-J. Saunders Redding, The Saturday Review of Literature, 22 January 1949 -- 'One Way Ticket, ' New Book of Poems by Langston Hughes-Abner W. Berry, Daily Worker, 13 February 1949 -- Facsimile: Knopf announcement of publication of One-Way Ticket -- A Citizen of Harlem: 1950 -- 1959 -- The McCarthy Hearings and Right-Wing Critics -- Testimony before the Executive Session, 24 March 1953-record of the Eighty-Third Congress, First Session, 1953 -- Am I Excused Now?-record of the Eighty-Third Congress, First Session, 26 March 1953 -- Langston Hughes: Malevolent Force-Elizabeth Staples, American Mercury, January 1959
Settling Matters in Mexico-Hughes letter to Carrie Clark, 14 December 1934 -- Soul Gone Home: A One-Act Play-Hughes, One-Act Play, July 1937 -- Facsimile: Page from draft of speech for the Second International Writers Congress, 16 July 1937 -- Hughes Bombed in Spain-Hughes, Baltimore Afro-American, 23 October 1937 -- Facsimile: Pages with Hughes annotations from One Act Play, October 1938 -- Writers, Words and the World-speech by Hughes, 25 July 1938 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Dorothy Peterson, 25 July 1939 -- Adventures as a Social Writer: 1940 -- 1949 -- Facsimile: Hughes's application to the Julius Rosenwald Fund, 5 January 1941 -- Ellison and Wright on The Big Sea -- Stormy Weather-Ralph Ellison, The New Masses, 24 September 1940 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Richard Wright, 29 February 1940 -- Forerunner and Ambassador-Wright, The New Republic, 28 October 1940
Swords over Asia-Hughes, Fight against War and Fascism, June 1934 -- Facsimile: Hughes speech in Japan, 30 June 1933 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Jean Toomer, 17 November 1933, and Toomer's reply -- A First Collection of Stories -- Red-Headed Baby-from Hughes, The Ways of White Folks -- Langston Hughes Produces a Remarkably Fine Book of Short Stories: Review of The Ways of White Folks-Herschel Brickell, New York Post, 28 June 1934 -- Change the World!: Review of The Ways of White Folks-Edwin Rolfe, Daily Worker, 10 July 1934 -- Jazz-Consciousness: Review of The Ways of White Folks-Vernon Loggins, The Saturday Review of Literature, 14 July 1934 -- The Uses of Words -- To Negro Writers-essay by Hughes, American Writers' Congress, April 1935 -- An Appeal for Jacques Roumain-Hughes, letter to the editor, The New Republic, 12 December 1934
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain-Hughes, The Nation, 23 June 1926 -- An Absurd Contention-Hughes, letter to the editor, The Nation, 18 August 1926 -- Facsimile: Hughes letter to Wallace Thurman, circa 1926 -- Reviews of Fine Clothes to the Jew -- Songs of the Lowly-Dewey R. Jones, Chicago Defender, 5 February 1927 -- The Growth of a Poet-Walter F. White, New York World, 6 February 1927 -- Langston Hughes: The Sewer Dweller-William M. Kelley, New York Amsterdam News, 9 February 1927 -- A Poet for the People-Margaret Larkin, Opportunity, March 1927 -- On Critics -- These Bad New Negroes: A Critique on Critics-essay by Hughes, 22 March 1927 -- Only the Best-Hughes letter to W.E.B. Du Bois, 11 February 1928 -- A Man of Letters -- Hughes letter to Claude McKay, 5 March 1928 -- Hughes letter to McKay, 13 September 1928 -- Hughes letter to Wallace Thurman, circa 1929
Wright Wins the Spingarn Medal-Hughes letter to Wright, 15 February 1941 -- The "Goodbye Christ" Controversy -- Concerning "Goodbye, Christ"-Hughes statement, 1 January 1941 -- Hughes letter to Malcolm Cowley, 2 January 1941 -- The Third Collection of Poems -- To Croon, Shout, Recite or Sing: Review of Shakespeare in Harlem-Ruth Lechlitner, New York Herald Tribune Books, 3 May 1942 -- "Unworthy of the Author": Review of Shakespeare in Harlem-Owen Dodson, Phylon, Third Quarter 1942 -- Writing for the Chicago Defender -- Negro Writers and the War-Hughes draft of article for the Chicago Defender, 24 August 1942 -- Facsimile: Slogans for war bonds, circa 1942 -- Why and Wherefore-Hughes, Chicago Defender, 21 November 1942 -- Conversation at Midnight-Hughes, Chicago Defender, 13 February 1943 -- On America's Democracy -- Democracy, Negroes, and Writers-Hughes statement, 13 May 1941
Summary Information provided on Langston Hughes, one of the most influential, prolific and popular writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that generated an unprecedented amount of African American art, literature and music. During his nearly five decades as a writer, Hughes gained international acclaim in nearly every genre of writing, including poetry, drama, the short story, the novel, history, prose, children's literature and song lyrics
Notes "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
SUBJECT Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00049863
Subject African American poets -- Biography.
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
African American poets.
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Poets, American.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author De Santis, Christopher C., 1966-
Gale Research Inc
LC no. 2005005553
ISBN 0787681334
9780787681333