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From: Langston Hughes Review[(essay date spring 1993) In the following essay, Hernton examines the lesser-known "protest" poems of Langston Hughes.] The poetry of Langston Hughes is imbued with a consciousness of black people which has always...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 92, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAfter being visibly moved by dance adaptations of four of her poems, Dr. Nelson delivered the following keynote to the packed audience in attendance, which included several hundred students from the Norman middle...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)As impressive as Langston Hughes is for his versatility and productivity, his claim to enduring literary importance rests chiefly on his poetry and his Simple sketches. In his poetry his sure lyric touch, his poignant...
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From:Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Vol. 37, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedI bought the first edition of Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song in Philadelphia in the early eighties and carried it with me when I moved to Seattle a few years later to teach at the University of Washington. It...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955) is the result of a collaborative effort between photographer Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes. Their unique fusion of words and images provides an opportunity to examine how the...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 140, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Spring 2010, a manuscript version of Ralph Ellison's unfinished second novel, Three Days before the Shooting , was finally published. Written over the course of more than forty years and running to 1,100 pages, the...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Talk is a one-person performance that draws on the voices of ancestors, elders, youths, and intellectuals to engage in the difficult conversations that we must have with our children as we prepare them to survive and...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 46, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedMartin Luther King, Jr. consistently allowed Langston Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" significant places in his public speeches and sermons from 1956 to 1967. Charting no fewer than thirteen overt references to this poem...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe radical poetry written by Langston Hughes, mostly between 1932-1938, has been unfortunately neglected by scholars. Hughes himself became ambivalent toward his earlier radical writings. However, this work by Hughes is...
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From: Prophets of Recognition: Ideology and the Individual in Novels[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Eichelberger discusses the relationship between ideology and the individual in The Optimist's Daughter.] Eudora Welty, like Ellison, Morrison, and Bellow, has enjoyed a very...