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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
February 1, 1988
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780195054262
ISBN-10
0195054261
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.50 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$17.95
Other format details
university press
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§As reported by publisher
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The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes | Not Without Laughter | March 3 | March 2 | The Life of Langston Hughes | The Big Sea | The Ways of White Folks | I Wonder As I Wander | Walt Whitman's America
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Poet, playwright, novelist, and a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Langston Hughes stands as one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century. As the first installment of a two-volume biography, this portrait of Langston Hughes depicts his life from his birth in Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941.
Rampersad recounts Hughes' early days in Kansas as a child of a family steeped in radical Abolitionism, with an ancestor who fought and died at Harper's Ferry in John Brown's band. Taught by his aged grandmother to revere freedom and justice, he nevertheless led a lonely life as a child. His mother left him in his grandmother's care while trying unsuccessfully to launch a career in the theater, and his father--a black man who seemed to hate blacks--abandoned him to find a business career in Mexico. Hughes grew into a highly disciplined and yet restless adult who found personal salvation in poetry.
Inspired by both the democratic chants of Walt Whitman and the vibrant forms of Afro-American culture, Hughes became the most original and revered of black poets. Rampersad's study traces the nomadic, yet dedicated spirit that led him--as a young man--to Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Africa, Europe, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan, as well as all over the United States. During his travels, Hughes cultivated associations with a dazzling range of political activists, patrons, and fellow artists, including Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Van Vechten, Lincoln Steffens, Nancy Cunard, Ernest Hemingway, and Claude McKay.
Based on exhaustive research in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library, Rampersad's masterful work presents a vivid portrait of one of our greatest writers and a sweeping panorama of culture and history in the early twentieth century.
Rampersad recounts Hughes' early days in Kansas as a child of a family steeped in radical Abolitionism, with an ancestor who fought and died at Harper's Ferry in John Brown's band. Taught by his aged grandmother to revere freedom and justice, he nevertheless led a lonely life as a child. His mother left him in his grandmother's care while trying unsuccessfully to launch a career in the theater, and his father--a black man who seemed to hate blacks--abandoned him to find a business career in Mexico. Hughes grew into a highly disciplined and yet restless adult who found personal salvation in poetry.
Inspired by both the democratic chants of Walt Whitman and the vibrant forms of Afro-American culture, Hughes became the most original and revered of black poets. Rampersad's study traces the nomadic, yet dedicated spirit that led him--as a young man--to Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Africa, Europe, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan, as well as all over the United States. During his travels, Hughes cultivated associations with a dazzling range of political activists, patrons, and fellow artists, including Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Van Vechten, Lincoln Steffens, Nancy Cunard, Ernest Hemingway, and Claude McKay.
Based on exhaustive research in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library, Rampersad's masterful work presents a vivid portrait of one of our greatest writers and a sweeping panorama of culture and history in the early twentieth century.
Editions
Editions for the work The Life of Langston Hughes: 1902-1941 : I Too, Sing America
Hardcover
from Oxford Univ Pr (October 2, 1986)
9780195040111 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.95 lbs | List price $39.95
About: Poet, playwright, novelist, a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s--Langston Hughes was one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century.
About: Poet, playwright, novelist, a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s--Langston Hughes was one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century.
Paperback
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With Pia D. M. MacDonald, Ph. D. |
Reprint edition from Oxford Univ Pr (February 1, 1988)
9780195054262 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $17.95
This edition also contains Methods in Field Epidemiology
About: Poet, playwright, novelist, and a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Langston Hughes stands as one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century.
This edition also contains Methods in Field Epidemiology
About: Poet, playwright, novelist, and a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Langston Hughes stands as one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century.
Editions for the work Methods in Field Epidemiology
Paperback
1 edition from Jones & Bartlett Pub (August 17, 2011)
9780763784591 | details & prices | 349 pages | 6.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $129.95
About: This unique guidebook covers all aspects of practical field epidemiologic investigation.
About: This unique guidebook covers all aspects of practical field epidemiologic investigation.
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With Arnold Rampersad |
Reprint edition from Oxford Univ Pr (February 1, 1988); titled "The Life of Langston Hughes: 1902-1941 : I Too, Sing America"
9780195054262 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $17.95
This edition also contains The Life of Langston Hughes: 1902-1941 : I Too, Sing America
About: Poet, playwright, novelist, and a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Langston Hughes stands as one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century.
This edition also contains The Life of Langston Hughes: 1902-1941 : I Too, Sing America
About: Poet, playwright, novelist, and a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Langston Hughes stands as one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century.
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