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Remember Me to Harlem : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, Paperback by Bernard, Emily (EDT); Hughes, Langston; Van Vechten, Carl, ISBN 0375727078, ISBN-13 9780375727078, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An engaging portrait of two key figures of the Harlem Renaissance presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between gifted African-American poet Langston Hughes and his white mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues, a study of American culture, and portraits of W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and other important figures. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer, and photographer whose ardent support of black artists was peerless. Despite their differences -- Van Vechten was forty-four to Hughes twenty-two when they met-Hughes' and Van Vechten's shared interest in black culture lead to a deeply-felt, if unconventional friendship that would span some forty years. Between them they knew everyone -- from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright, and their letters, lovingly and expertly collected here for the first time, are filled with gossip about the antics of the great and the forgotten, as well as with talk that ranged from race relations to blues lyrics to the nightspots of Harlem, which they both loved to prowl. It's a correspondence that, as Emily Bernard notes in her introduction, provides "an unusual record of entertainment, politics, and culture as seen through the eyes of two fascinating and irreverent men.

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375727078
ISBN-13
9780375727078
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1997560

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Remember Me to Harlem : the Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Author
Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, Letters, Literary, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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8in
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1.1in
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5.2in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz

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"Meticulously annotatedâ€¦serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents." The New York Times Book Review "Much of the history of race relationsand literary historyin America during the first half of the 20th century is represented here. . . . A magnificent contribution to our understanding of an important friendship." The Washington Post " Remember Me to Harlem is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, it is also a delightful collection of gossipy correspondence between two of its leadingand most intriguingcharacters." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "If you're interested in the Harlem Renaissance, you can't afford to miss this book." Vibe " Remember Me to Harlem serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents ." --David Levering Lewis, The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable work that reveals a complicated relationship between two important U.S. literary figures whose long friendship reached across the racial divide" The Miami Herald, "Meticulously annotated...serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents." The New York Times Book Review "Much of the history of race relationsand literary historyin America during the first half of the 20th century is represented here. . . . A magnificent contribution to our understanding of an important friendship." The Washington Post " Remember Me to Harlem is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, it is also a delightful collection of gossipy correspondence between two of its leadingand most intriguingcharacters." Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "If you're interested in the Harlem Renaissance, you can't afford to miss this book." Vibe " Remember Me to Harlem serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents ." --David Levering Lewis, The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable work that reveals a complicated relationship between two important U.S. literary figures whose long friendship reached across the racial divide" The Miami Herald From the Trade Paperback edition., "Meticulously annotatedâ€¦serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents."The New York Times Book Review "Much of the history of race relationsand literary historyin America during the first half of the 20th century is represented here. . . . A magnificent contribution to our understanding of an important friendship."The Washington Post "Remember Me to Harlemis not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, it is also a delightful collection of gossipy correspondence between two of its leadingand most intriguingcharacters." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "If you're interested in the Harlem Renaissance, you can't afford to miss this book."Vibe "Remember Me to Harlemserves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents."--David Levering Lewis,The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable work that reveals a complicated relationship between two important U.S. literary figures whose long friendship reached across the racial divide" The Miami Herald From the Trade Paperback edition., "Meticulously annotatedâ€¦serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents."The New York Times Book Review "Much of the history of race relationsand literary historyin America during the first half of the 20th century is represented here. . . . A magnificent contribution to our understanding of an important friendship."The Washington Post "Remember Me to Harlem is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, it is also a delightful collection of gossipy correspondence between two of its leadingand most intriguingcharacters." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "If you're interested in the Harlem Renaissance, you can't afford to miss this book."Vibe "Remember Me to Harlem serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents." --David Levering Lewis, The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable work that reveals a complicated relationship between two important U.S. literary figures whose long friendship reached across the racial divide" The Miami Herald, "Meticulously annotatedâ€¦serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents."The New York Times Book Review "Much of the history of race relationsand literary historyin America during the first half of the 20th century is represented here. . . . A magnificent contribution to our understanding of an important friendship."The Washington Post "Remember Me to Harlemis not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, it is also a delightful collection of gossipy correspondence between two of its leadingand most intriguingcharacters." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "If you're interested in the Harlem Renaissance, you can't afford to miss this book."Vibe "Remember Me to Harlemserves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents."--David Levering Lewis,The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable work that reveals a complicated relationship between two important U.S. literary figures whose long friendship reached across the racial divide" The Miami Herald
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