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From:Langston Hughes Review (Vol. 25, Issue 1)ABSTRACT Langston Hughes published so much brilliant literature with a strongly religious flavor that many people, including academic critics, appear to assume that he was in some way ultimately a devout believer in God....
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From: The New Republic[In the excerpt below, Rampersad considers Brown the “true epic poet of modern Harlem,” based on Brown's writings, Manchild in the Promised Land and The Children of Ham.] Harlem is once again on Claude Brown's mind,...
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From: The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Rampersad argues that Hughes's use of the blues form in his poetry places him in the modernist tradition.] In 1936, certainly after the end of the Harlem Renaissance, one...
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From: The Langston Hughes Review[(essay date Fall 1986) In the following essay, Rampersad argues that the Leftist critics failed Hughes.] Radicalism is one of the main points of pressure in Langston Hughes's reputation, like--for example--the...
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From: Short Stories of Langston Hughes[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Rampersad traces Hughes's early attempts at short story writing and documents themes of bigotry and intolerance in The Ways of White Folks.] Langston Hughes undoubtedly saw...
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From:African American Writers (Vol. 1. 2nd ed.)ARNOLD RAMPERSAD Introduction IN MARCH 1966, about a year before his death, Langston Hughes flew from his home in New York City to Africa, to the city of Dakar in Senegal, to attend the widely heralded First World...