Critical essays on Langston Hughes /
Contains a collection of reviews and essays on the work of Langston Hughes.
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Boston, Mass. :
G.K. Hall,
[1986]
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| Series: | Critical essays on American literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Edward J. Mullen
- [Reviews]
- Poet on poet / Countee Cullen
- Review of The weary blues / Jessie Fauset
- Review of The weary blues / Anon.
- The Jazz band's sob / DuBose Heyward
- Review of The weary blues / Alain Locke
- Review of Fine clothes to the Jew / J.A. Rogers
- Sing a soothin' song / DuBose Heyward
- A poet for the people / Margaret Larkin
- Common clay and poetry / Alain Locke
- Review of Fine clothes to the Jew / Lewis Alexander
- Limiting devices / Kenneth Fearing
- Review of Not without laughter / V.F. Calverton
- Review of Not without laughter / Sterling Brown
- Paying for old sins / Sherwood Anderson
- Review of the ways of white folks / Alain Locke
- Forerunner and ambassador / Richard Wright
- From Seven American poets / Alfred Kreymborg
- To be sung or shouted / H.R. Hays
- Review of Shakespeare in Harlem / Owen Dodson
- Poems by Langston Hughes / Hubert Creekmore
- Old form, old rhythms, new words / Saunders Redding
- Dialogues but barbed / Carl Van Vechten
- What it means to be colored. Langston Hughes in an old vein with new rhythms / Saunders Redding
- Waste land of Harlem / Babette Deutsch
- For your recreation and reflections / G. Lewis Chandler
- Black and bubbling / Arna Bontemps
- In the heart of Harlem / Carl Van Vechten
- Review of Simple stakes a claim / Luther Jackson
- Sermons and blues / James Baldwin
- Laura and Essie Belle / Gilbert Millstein
- A trio of singers in varied keyes / Dudley Fitts
- Jazz as a marching jubilee / Rudi Blesh
- Review of The panther and the lash / W. Edward Farrison
- Poetry and chronicle / Laurence Leiberman
- [Articles and essays]
- Three Negro poets / Nancy Cunard
- Hughes's Black esthetic / Onwuchekwa Jemie
- Langston Hughes / Melvin Tolson
- Langston Hughes versus the Black preachers in the Pittsburgh Courier in the 1930's / Walter C. Daniel
- The Harlem of Langston Hughes' poetry / Arthur P. Davis
- Jazz poetry and blues / Charles S. Johnson
- The 'Madam poems' as dramatic monologue / Dellita L. Martin
- Some mark to make : the lyrical imagination of Langston Hughes / R. Baxter Miller
- Old John in Harlem : the urban folktales of Langston Hughes / Susan L. Blake
- Bodies in the moonlight : a critical analysis / James A. Emanuel
- Jesse B. Semple and the narrative art of Langston Hughes / Phyllis R. Klotman
- Miscegenation on Broadway : Hughes's Mulatto and Edward Sheldon's The nigger / Richard K. Barksdale.