Format:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780192667090
Content:
A chronological collection of interviews with, and speeches by, the writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) who emerged during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and, over the course of a career that spanned nearly fifty years, gained international attention and acclaim in almost every genre of writing.
Content:
Cover -- Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes -- Copyright -- Copyright exceptions -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1: From Busboy Poet to an International Voice for the Working Masses -- "Langston Hughes, 'Busboy Poet' and Writer of 'Weary Blues,' Tells How a Long Shot First Gave Him a Chance to Scale Height" -- Book to Be Published -- A Prize Winner -- Much Has He Traveled -- Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" -- Floyd J. Calvin, "Langston Hughes Answers His Critics" -- Langston Hughes, "These Bad New Negroes: A Critique on Critics" -- Nicolás Guillén, "Conversation with Langston Hughes" (1929) -- Langston Hughes, "Negro Art and Its Audience" -- Langston Hughes, "Negro Art and Publicity Value" -- Langston Hughes, "Negro Art and the Artist" -- "Langston Hughes Sends Message from Russia to Voters: Noted Poet Sees Hope in Communist Party" -- "Portion of a Speech by Langston Hughes before the Pan-Pacific Club of Tokyo, June 30, 1933, as Reported in the Japan Advertiser Tokyo, July 1, 1933" -- Langston Hughes, Noted Negro Poets, Also Speaks and Says His People Are Oppressed -- Langston Hughes, "From Moscow to Shanghai" -- "Negro Author Is Tossed Out by Japanese-Writer Prohibited to Stay in Japan after Visits to Russia and Shanghai" -- Gathers Material for Book -- School Girls Arrested -- Langston Hughes, "To Negro Writers" -- Langston Hughes, Radio Broadcast Regarding the Third United States Congress Against War and Fascism -- Langston Hughes, Excerpt from "The Negro Faces Fascism" -- "Langston Hughes' 50,000 Mile Trip-Learns Shoes Win in Haiti Economy" -- War for Alabama -- Langston Hughes, "Too Much of Race" -- Langston Hughes, "Negroes in Spain" -- All Fight Fascism -- "Deluded Moors" -- What They Said.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780192855046
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780192855046
Language:
English
Author information:
Hughes, Langston 1902-1967
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