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PublisherUniversity of Missouri Press

ISBN-100826217168

ISBN-139780826217165

eBay Product ID (ePID)57212555

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Number of Pages376 Pages

Publication NameMontage of a Dream : the Art and Life of Langston Hughes

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAmerican / African American, Literary, American / General, United States / General, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publication Year2007

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorCheryl R. Ragar

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight26.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2006-102013

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Any serious Hughes scholar will embrace and celebrate this diverse collection of essays. It provides an interesting and helpful new platform from which to launch the future generations of Hughesian scholarship."-- Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, author of Not So Simple: The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes, "Any serious Hughes scholar will embrace and celebrate this diverse collection of essays. It provides an interesting and helpful new platform from which to launch the future generations of Hughesian scholarship."-- Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper , author of Not So Simple: The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes, "To say this collection of eighteen critical essays examining the broad range of Langston Hughes's art and life accomplishes its purpose of rejuvenating the existing scholarship on his more than four decades of writing is to make and understatement."-- The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, "A must-read for both experienced students of Hughes and those new to his work, because this collection not only demonstrates the influence of Hughes on literary history, but it renews the valuable legacy he has left us."-- African American Review, "Any serious Hughes scholar will embrace and celebrate this diverse collection of essays. It provides an interesting and helpful new platform from which to launch the future generations of Hughesian scholarship." Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, author of Not So Simple: The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes, "Any serious Hughes scholar will embrace and celebrate this diverse collection of essays. It provides an interesting and helpful new platform from which to launch the future generations of Hughesian scholarship." -- Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper

Grade FromCollege Freshman

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal818/.5209 B

SynopsisOver a forty-six-year career, Langston Hughes experimented with black folk expressive culture, creating an enduring body of extraordinary imaginative and critical writing. Riding the crest of African American creative energy from the Harlem Renaissance to the onset of Black Power, he commanded an artistic prowess that survives in the legacy he bequeathed to a younger generation of writers, including award winners Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and Amiri Baraka. Montage of a Dream extends and deepens previous scholarship, multiplying the ways in which Hughes's diverse body of writing can be explored. The contributors, including such distinguished scholars as Steven Tracy, Trudier Harris, Juda Bennett, Lorenzo Thomas, and Christopher C. De Sands, carefully reexamine the significance of his work and life for their continuing relevance to American, African American, and diasporic literatures and cultures. Probing anew among Hughes's fiction, biographies, poetry, drama, essays, and other writings, the contributors assert fresh perspectives on the often overlooked "Luani of the Jungles" and Black Magic and offer insightful rereadings of such familiar pieces as "Cora Unashamed," "Slave on the Block," and Not without Laughter. In addition to analyzing specific works, the contributors astutely consider subjects either lightly explored by or unavailable to earlier scholars, including dance, queer studies, black masculinity, and children's literature. Some investigate Hughes's use of religious themes and his passion for the blues as the fabric of black art and life; others ponder more vexing questions such as Hughes's sexuality and his relationship with his mother, as revealed in the letters shesent him in the last decade of her life. Montage of a Dream richly captures the power of one man's art to imagine an America holding fast to its ideals while forging unity out of its cultural diversity. By showing that Langston Hughes continues to speak to the fundamentals of human nature, this comprehensive reconsideration invites a renewed appreciation of Hughes's work--and encourages new readers to discover his enduring relevance as they seek to understand the world in which we all live., Over a forty-six-year career, Langston Hughes experimented with black folk expressive culture, creating an enduring body of extraordinary imaginative writing. Riding the crest of African American creative energy from the Harlem Renaissance to the onset of Black Power, he commanded an artistic prowess that survives in the legacy he bequeathed to a younger generation of writers, including Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and Amiri Baraka. Montage of a Dream extends and deepens previous scholarship, multiplying the ways in which Hughes's diverse body of writing can be explored. By showing that Hughes continues to speak to the fundamentals of human nature, this comprehensive reconsideration invites a renewed appreciation of Hughes's work--and encourages new readers to discover his enduring relevance as they seek to understand the world in which we all live., Over a forty-six-year career, Langston Hughes experimented with black folk expressive culture, creating an enduring body of extraordinary imaginative and critical writing. Riding the crest of African American creative energy from the Harlem Renaissance to the onset of Black Power, he commanded an artistic prowess that survives in the legacy he bequeathed to a younger generation of writers, including award winners Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and Amiri Baraka. Montage of a Dream extends and deepens previous scholarship, multiplying the ways in which Hughes's diverse body of writing can be explored. The contributors, including such distinguished scholars as Steven Tracy, Trudier Harris, Juda Bennett, Lorenzo Thomas, and Christopher C. De Santis, carefully reexamine the significance of his work and life for their continuing relevance to American, African American, and diasporic literatures and cultures. Probing anew among Hughes's fiction, biographies, poetry, drama, essays, and other writings, the contributors assert fresh perspectives on the often overlooked "Luani of the Jungles" and Black Magic and offer insightful rereadings of such familiar pieces as "Cora Unashamed," "Slave on the Block," and Not without Laughter . In addition to analyzing specific works, the contributors astutely consider subjects either lightly explored by or unavailable to earlier scholars, including dance, queer studies, black masculinity, and children's literature. Some investigate Hughes's use of religious themes and his passion for the blues as the fabric of black art and life; others ponder more vexing questions such as Hughes's sexuality and his relationship with his mother, as revealed in the letters she sent him in the last decade of her life. Montage of a Dream richly captures the power of one man's art to imagine an America holding fast to its ideals while forging unity out of its cultural diversity. By showing that Langston Hughes continues to speak to the fundamentals of human nature, this comprehensive reconsideration invites a renewed appreciation of Hughes's work--and encourages new readers to discover his enduring relevance as they seek to understand the world in which we all live.

LC Classification NumberPS3515.U274Z6845