Gospel Singers (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Langston Hughes
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: Harlem
- Principal Characters: Jesse B. Semple, Boyd
- Genres: Short fiction, Character study
- Subjects: African Americans, Religion, Inner cities or inner-city life, Gospel music, Church or churches, Opera, operas, or operettas, Profit
- Locales: Harlem, NY
The Story
“Gospel Singers” is not really a short story in the usual sense, nor a chapter in a novel, although Langston Hughes's books featuring the character called Simple are listed in bibliographies as novels. The story is found in Simple's Uncle Sam (1965), the last of several books devoted to a presumably average, relatively uneducated black man who speaks with a certain folk wisdom about Harlem and its denizens. His relationship to the black community seems somewhat analogous to that of Will Rogers to Midwestern rural and small-town white people of limited...
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