The Langston Hughes reader.
A compilation of writings by early twentieth-century African-American author Langston Hughes, including excerpts from novels and autobiographies, short stories, plays, poems, songs, and essays.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
George Braziller,
1958.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
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| Local Note: |
MSU: Copy 2 gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: Copy 2 in dust jacket. |
| Physical Description: | x, 501 pages ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Short stories : The ways of white folks (1934) : Cora unashamed
- Slave on the block
- Red-headed baby
- Little dog
- Laughing to keep from crying (1952) : Who's passing for who?
- Something in common
- Spanish blood
- On the way home
- Tain't so
- One Friday morning
- Tragedy at the baths
- Big meeting
- Other stories : Thank you, ma'am
- Patron of the arts
- Poems : The weary blues (1926) : The weary blues
- The negro speaks of rivers
- Montage of a dream deferred (1951)
- Other poems : Ballad of Mary's son
- Acceptance
- Pastoral
- Dear lovely death
- Poet to bigot
- Testament
- Conservatory student struggles with higher instrumentation
- Elderly politicians
- Freedom's plow
- Translations : Epigram, by Armand Lanusse (Creole-New Orleans)
- Verse written in the album of mademoiselle, by Pierre Dalcour (Creole-New Orleans)
- Flute players, by Jean Joseph Rabearivelo (French Madagascar)
- Guinea, by Jacques Roumain (Haiti)
- She left herself one evening, by Leon Damas (French Guiana)
- I, by 'Francisca' (Mexico)
- Opinions of the new student, by Regino Pedroso (Cuba)
- Dead soldier, by Nicolas Guillen (Cuba)
- Children's poetry : Introduction: children and poetry
- 18 poems for children
- Song lyrics : Introduction: songs called the blues
- Red sun blues
- Five o'clock blues
- Lonely house (from 'street scene')
- Requiem (from 'street scene')
- I dream a world (from 'troubled island')
- Novels and humor : Not without laughter (1930) : Guitar
- Simple speaks his mind (1950) : A word from 'town and country'
- Temptation
- Family tree
- There ought to be a law
- Income tax
- Spring time
- Seeing double
- For the sake of argument
- Race relations
- Simple takes a wife (1952) : Science says it's a lie
- Fancy free
- That powerful drop
- Midsummer madness
- Staggering figures
- That word black
- Dear Dr. Butts
- Simple stakes a claim (1957) : Bang-up big end
- Big round world
- Two sides not enough
- Depression in the cards
- Out-loud silent
- Jim Crow's funeral
- Reason and right
- Simple stashes back
- An auto-obituary
- Chips on the shoulder
- Plays : Soul gone home: a one-act play (1937)
- Simply heavenly (1957)
- Autobiography : The big sea (1940) : Beyond sandy hook
- Negro
- Salvation
- The mother of the Gracchi
- Central high
- Abrupt encounter
- Father
- Back home
- I've known rivers
- Mexico again
- Promenade
- Means of escape
- Card for Cuernavaca
- Bullfights
- Tragedy in Toluca
- Departure
- When the negro was in vogue
- Harlem literati
- Gurdjieff in Harlem
- Parties
- Downtown
- Shows
- Poetry
- I wonder as I wander (1956) : Mary McLeod Bethune
- Tragedy at Hampton
- Color at chapel hill
- Plantation hospitality
- Warning in Mississippi
- Personal autograph
- Making poetry pay
- Bombs in Barcelona
- Sweet wine of Valencia
- Breakfast in Madrid
- Harlem swing and Spanish shells
- Death and laughter
- Body here, leg there
- General Franco's moors
- Artists under siege
- How to eat a cat
- Salud Madrid
- Pageant : The glory of negro history
- Articles and speeches : A speech at the national assembly of authors and dramatists: the negro writer's position in America
- Memories of Christmas
- My most humiliating Jim Crow experience
- Ten thousand beds
- How to be a bad writer (in ten easy lessons)
- Jazz as communication
- Sweet chariots of this world
- The fun of being black
- My America
- Bibliography of the writings of Langston Hughes.