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Langston Hughes: Black genius; a critical evaluation. / Edited by Therman B. O'Daniel for the College Language Association.
LIBRA - Rare PS3515.U274 Z67 1971 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hughes, Langston.
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
- African Americans in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Local Subjects:
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 245 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1971.
- Contents:
- Langston Hughes / Therman B. O'Daniel
- Langston Hughes: cool poet / Arthur P. Davis
- Langston Hughes: poet in the folk manner / Nancy B. McGhee
- The good black poet and the good gray poet: the poetry of Hughes and Whitman / Donald B. Gibson
- Langston Hughes as playwright / Darwin T. Turner
- Not without laughter but without tears / William Edward Farrison
- A word about Simple / Blyden Jackson
- A pain in his soul: Simple as epic hero / Eugenia W. Collier
- Rhetorical embellishment in Hughes's Simple stories / Harry L. Jones
- The short fiction of Langston Hughes / James A. Emanuel
- Langston Hughes as translator / John F. Matheus
- The literary experiments of Langston Hughes / James A. Emanuel
- Langston Hughes and Afro-American folk and cultural tradition / George E. Kent
- Langston Hughes: a selected classified bibliography / Therman B. O'Daniel.
- Notes:
- "Though there have been biographies and bibliographies about Hughes, this is the first book of criticism on him."--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-241).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "Morrow Paperback Editions" with price $2.95.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Langston Hughes: Black genius.
- ISBN:
- 0688060439
- 9780688060435
- OCLC:
- 206242
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