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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.     Subjects     Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Correspondence.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.     African American authors -- Correspondence.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.       by title:      The selected letters...         MARC Display

The selected letters of Langston Hughes [electronic resource] / edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel ; with Christa Fratantoro. by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Subjects Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Correspondence.   Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.   African American authors -- Correspondence. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=88FF2AD9-356A-4DD0-A125-5BCEF24EF1D5 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/selected-letters-of-88ff2a?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{88FF2AD9-356A-4DD0-A125-5BCEF24EF1D5}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780385353564 electronic bk. 0385353561 electronic bk. 9780375413797 Description:  1 online resource : illustrations Requests:  0 Summary:  This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes's journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and--above all--literary. His letters range from those written to family members, notably his father (who opposed Langston's literary ambitions), and to friends, fellow artists, critics, and readers who sought him out by mail. These figures include personalities such as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Vachel Lindsay, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Kurt Weill, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, and Muhammad Ali. The letters tell the story of a determined poet precociously finding his mature voice; struggling to realize his literary goals in an environment generally hostile to blacks; reaching out bravely to the young and challenging them to aspire beyond the bonds of segregation; using his artistic prestige to serve the disenfranchised and the cause of social justice; irrepressibly laughing at the world despite its quirks and humiliations. Venturing bravely on what he called the "big sea "of life, Hughes made his way forward always aware that his only hope of self-fulfillment and a sense of personal integrity lay in diligently pursuing his literary vocation. Hughes's voice in these pages, enhanced by photographs and quotations from his poetry, allows us to know him intimately and gives us an unusually rich picture of this generous, visionary, gratifyingly good man who was also a genius of modern American letters. From the Hardcover edition.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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