Montage of a dream : the art and life of Langston Hughes / / edited by John Edgar Tidwell and Cheryl R. Ragar ; with a foreword by Arnold Rampersad

• Pubblicazione: Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 351 p
• Disciplina: 818/.5209; B
• Soggetto topico: Poets, American - 20th century; African American poets; African Americans in literature; Harlem Renaissance
• Soggetto geografico: Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century
• Altri autori: TidwellJohn Edgar RagarCheryl R
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-334) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Montage of a Dream The Art and Life of Langston Hughes -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Poème pour Langston -- Poem for Langston -- Langston Hughes Revisited and Revised: An Introduction -- I The Sacred and the Secular -- Langston Hughes and Aunt Hager's Children's Blues Performance -- Almost-But Not Quite-Bluesmen in Langston Hughes's Poetry -- Natural and Unnatural Circumstances in Not without Laughter -- II The Public and the Private -- The Sounds of Silence: Langston Hughes as a "Down Low" Brother? -- Langston Hughes on the Open Road: Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Question of Presence -- Gender Performance and Sexual Subjectivity in Not without Laughter: Sandy's Emergent Masculinity -- Mother to Son: The Letters from Carrie Hughes Clark to Langston Hughes, 1928-1938 -- III Revolutions Literary and Political -- "Luani of the Jungles": Reimagining the Africa of Heart of Darkness -- Langston Hughes's Red Poetics and the Practice of "Disalienation" -- The Paradox of Modernism in The Ways of White Folks -- IV Other Words and Other Worlds -- The Empowerment of Displacement -- "It Is the Same Everywhere for Me": Langston Hughes and the African Diaspora's Everyman -- Montage of a Dream Destroyed: Langston Hughes in Spain -- The Russian Connection: Interracialism as Queer Alliance in The Ways of White Folks -- V Langston Hughes and the Boundaries of Art -- Langston Hughes and the Children's Literary Tradition -- Circles of Liberation and Constriction: Dance in Not without Laughter -- The Essayistic Vision of Langston Hughes -- Langston Hughes and the Movies: The Case of Way Down South -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Contributors reexamine the continuing relevance of Langston Hughes's work and life to American, African American, and diasporic literatures and cultures. Includes fresh perspectives on the often overlooked "Luani of the Jungles," Black Magic, and works for children, as well as Hughes's more familiar fiction, poetry, essays, dramas, and other writings"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Montage of a dream
• ISBN: 0-8262-6596-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808091703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II