1st Edition

Langston Hughes The Man, His Art, and His Continuing Influence

Edited By C. James Trotman Copyright 1995
    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1995. This volume focuses on the life and influence of Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and forms part of the Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture series. The series is devoted to original, book-Iength studies of African American developments. Written by well-qualified scholars, the series is interdisciplinary and global, interpreting tendencies and themes wherever African Americans have left their mark.

    Partial Contents: Langston Hughes: The Man, The Writer, and His Continuing Influence, Arnold Rampersad * Whose Sweet Angel Child? Blues Woman, Langston Hughes, and Writing During the Harlem Renaissance, Cheryl A. Wall * The Physics of Change in Father and Son, R. Baxter Miller * Achieving Universality Through Simple Truths, Akiba Sullivan Harper * Reading the Woman's Face in Langston Hughes's and Roy DeCarava's Sweet Flypaper of Life, Thadious Davis * For All the Kids to Come: The Troubled Island by William Grant Still and Langston Hughes, C. James Trotman * Race, Culture, and Gender in Langston Hughes's The Way of White Folks, Joyce Ann Joyce * Langston Hughes: Poetry, Blues, and Gospel, Stephen Tracy

    Biography

    C. James Trotman, Arnold Rampersad, Emery Wimbish