Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes Criticism

• Hughes, (James) Langston (Vol. 1)
• Hughes, Langston (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • The American Dream of Langston Hughes
    • The Black Woman as a Freedom Fighter in Langston Hughes's Simple Uncle Sam
    • 'Wondering About the Art of the Wanderer': Langston Hughes and His Critics
    • Langston Hughes and His Critics on the Left
    • Religion in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
    • 'Midnight Ruffles of Cat-Gut Lace': The Boogie Poems of Langston Hughes
    • Langston Hughes and Approaches to Modernism in the Harlem Renaissance
    • Dead Rocks and Sleeping Men: Aurality in the Aesthetic of Langston Hughes
    • Symbolizing America in Langston Hughes's 'Father and Son'
    • Rage, Repudiation, and Endurance: Langston Hughes's Radical Writings
    • Langston Hughes in Mexico and Cuba
    • Heroic 'Hussies' and 'Brilliant Queers': Genderracial Resistance in the Works of Langston Hughes
    • He Heard America Jiving
    • A review of The Sweet and Sour Animal Book and Black Misery
  • Further Reading
• Hughes, (James) Langston (Vol. 15)
  • The Blues Poetry of Langston Hughes
  • Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple and the Blues
  • 'Even After I Was Dead': 'The Big Sea'—Paradox, Preservation, and Holistic Time
  • Requiem for 'A Dream Deferred'
• Hughes, (James) Langston (Vol. 5)
• Hughes, (James) Langston (Vol. 10)
  • Introduction
  • Jesse B. Semple Revisited and Revised
  • Langston Hughes: The Minstrel As Artificer
  • Langston Hughes: A Kansas Poet in the Harlem Renaissance
  • William Peden
  • The American Dream and the Legacy of Revolution in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
  • 'Done Made Us Leave Our Home': Langston Hughes's 'Not Without Laughter'—Unifying Image and Three Dimensions
• Hughes, Langston (Poetry Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • Affirmation of Black Self
    • Turning into Love: Some Thoughts on Surviving and Meeting Langston Hughes
    • Langston Hughes: Black America's Poet Laureate
    • Do Right to Write Right: Langston Hughes's Aesthetics of Simplicity
    • Langston Hughes and the ‘Other’ Whitman
    • The Poetic Consciousness of Langston Hughes from Affirmation to Revolution
    • On Langston Hughes: Pioneering Poet
    • Langston Hughes: Poetry, Blues, and Gospel—Somewhere to Stand
    • Montage of an Otherness Deferred: Dreaming Subjectivity in Langston Hughes
    • Literacy and Authenticity: The Blues Poems of Langston Hughes
    • Who Was Langston Hughes?
    • Making Poetry Pay: The Commodification of Langston Hughes
    • Jazzing It Up: The Be-bop Modernism of Langston Hughes
    • Shakespeare in Harlem: The Norton Anthology, ‘Propaganda,’ Langston Hughes
    • Langston Hughes: A Poet Supreme
    • Ezra Pound and Langston Hughes: The ABC of Po'try
    • Langston Hughes and the ‘Nonsense’ of Bebop
    • Jazz, Realism, and the Modernist Lyric: The Poetry of Langston Hughes
  • Further Reading