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Langston Hughes - A Study of the Short Fiction (Hardcover)
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Langston Hughes - A Study of the Short Fiction (Hardcover)
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Perhaps the single best-known and most highly regarded
African-American writer of his time, Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
has left a profound mark on American letters. Taking the
environment of urban blacks, Hughes captured in verse and prose its
joys and pains, bringing a new realism to the subject. His
language, while unadorned in style, remained spirited and true to
colloquial speech, and his work was among the first by a black man
to gain a multi-racial and national audience. Hughes is primarily
remembered for his poetry, with which he established his reputation
in the 1920s. He did not even publish his first collection of short
fiction, The Ways of White Folks, until 1934. But precisely because
it appeared after he had undergone an extensive process of artistic
and personal development, it possesses an unusual coherence and
power. It deals unflinchingly with racial, class, and sexual
issues, as does his second collection, Laughing to Keep from Crying
(1952). In 1950 a number of satirical sketches featuring Hughes's
character Jesse B. Simple began appearing in collected form. These
represent a tradition distinct from his other work. Hans Ostrom
examines Hughes's short fiction canon in great detail, bringing in
a wealth of information on Hughes's background and times to provide
a fuller understanding. He discusses events such as the Harlem
Renaissance and how they relate to Hughes, as well as sensitively
examining the issue of race. Within a clear and coherent
organizational scheme, Ostrom adds excerpts from interviews and
letters and a section on the best previous scholarship and
criticism. The result is a truly useful study.
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