Life of Langston Hughes 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America

Name: Life of Langston Hughes 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780195146424

ISBN-10: 0195146425

ISBN-13: 9780195146424

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Arnold Rampersad

List price: $37.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy used: $7.24

Buy new: $20.37

Marketplace

4 new & used from $6.75

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. In young adulthood Hughes possessed a nomadic but dedicated spirit that led him from Mexico to Africa and the Soviet Union to Japan, and countless other stops around the globe. Associating with political activists, patrons, and fellow artists, and drawing inspiration from both Walt Whitman and the vibrant Afro-American culture, Hughes soon became the most original and revered of black poets. In the first volume's Afterword, Rampersad…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/10/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English




A Kansas Boyhood (1902 to 1915)



Outsetting Bard (1915 to 1921)



My People (1921 to 1923)



On the Big Sea (1923 to 1924)



We Have Tomorrow (1924 to 1926)



A Lion at Lincoln (1926 to 1927)



Godmother and Langston (1927 to 1930)



Flight and Fall (1930 to 1931)



Starting Over (1931 to 1932)



Good Morning, Revolution (1932 to 1933)



Waiting on Roosevelt (1933 to 1935)



Still Waiting on Roosevelt (1935 to 1937)



Earthquake Weather (1937 to 1939)



The Fall of a Titan (1939 to 1941)


Afterword


Abbreviations


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index