Not Without Laughter
by Langston Hughes
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- Langston Hughes (Critical Survey of Poetry: American Poets)
- Langston Hughes (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
- Langston Hughes (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
- Langston Hughes (Identities & Issues in Literature)
- Langston Hughes (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Langston Hughes
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1912-1918
- Setting: Stanton, Kansas, and Chicago
- Characters: James (Sandy) Rogers, Annjee, Harriett, Tempy
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Novel
- Subjects: African Americans, Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Racism, Midwest, 1910's, Chicago, Singing or singers, Kansas
- Locales: United States, Kansas, Illinois, North America, Chicago, Illinois, Stanton, Kansas
The Novel
Not Without Laughter concentrates on the childhood and adolescent years of Sandy Rogers, a sensitive and highly intelligent black boy growing up in a small Kansas town. His grandmother, known to the community as Aunt Hager, is the center of his life. She washes clothes for the Reinharts, a white family, and she takes care of him while his mother works for Mrs. J. J. Rice, a snobbish upper-class white woman. Later, Hager becomes Sandy’s sole guardian after his mother, Annjee, leaves to join her husband in Detroit and Harriett, the last daughter to remain at...
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