Not without laughter : authoritative text backgrounds and contexts criticism / Langston Hughes ; edited by R. Baxter Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.

Contributor:

Miller, R. Baxter, editor.

Series:

Norton critical edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Not without laughter--Criticism and interpretation.

Hughes, Langston.

African Americans--Kansas--Fiction.

African Americans.

African American families--Fiction.

African American families.

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Kansas--Fiction.

Kansas.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Novels.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xvii, 327 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Norton critical edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2026]

Summary:

"In small-town Kansas at the turn of the twentieth century, Sandy Rogers is a young Black boy growing up surrounded by family. His mother, Annjee, works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family while his father, Jimboy, comes in and out of town, bringing his guitar with him, and his grandmother, Hager, tries to keep the whole family right in the eyes of God. Amid the many hardships of these years of great change, Sandy learns what it means to be a member of the complex society he's inherited. First published in 1930, Langston Hughes's award-winning debut novel draws from the author's childhood in the rural Midwest to paint a moving account of the trials and joys of life in Black communities that, until the novel's publication, had not seen themselves reflected in American literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781324059585

1324059583

OCLC:

1592064729