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Bloom's How to Write about Langston Hughes by James B. Kelley
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781438175881
Publication Date: 2017-02-01
A poet, playwright, novelist, and public figure, Langston Hughes is regarded as a cultural hero, making his mark during the intellectual flowering of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s. A prolific author, Hughes focused his writing on discrimination in and disillusionment with American society. His most noted works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction are broached in this eBook, revealing the range and enduring vision of this multitalented writer. Students looking for guidance for essays about Hughes will appreciate this writing resource.
F. B. Eyes by William J. Maxwell
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781400852062
Publication Date: 2015-01-04
How FBI surveillance influenced African American writing Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau's intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels.
The Life of Langston Hughes by Arnold Rampersad
Call Number: PS3515 .U274 Z698 1986
ISBN: 0195040112
Publication Date: 1986-10-02
Poet, playwright, novelist, a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s--Langston Hughes was one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century. This book is the first installment of a projected two-volume life that will undoubtedly be the definitive biography of Hughes. Based on exhaustive research in archival collections throughout the country and abroad but primarily in the Langston Hughes Papers (previously closed to most scholars) at the Beinecke Library of Yale University, the book traces in detail Hughes's life from his birth in Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941.

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