Langston Hughes
The Contemporary Reviews

The first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writing of Langston Hughes from 1926 until his death in 1967.

Tish Dace (Edited by), M. Thomas Inge (General editor)

9780521114301, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 June 2009

788 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.9 cm, 1.14 kg

American Critical Archives is a series of reference books that provide representative selections of contemporary reviews of the main works of major American authors. Providing reprints of over 760 reviews and checklists of nearly 950 others, this book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writing of Langston Hughes from 1926 until his death in 1967. Celebrated as a young poet of the Harlem Renaissance, his poetry appeared in The Crisis and The New Negro. His other works include the play The Mulatto, and poetry collected in Shakespeare of Harlem and Ask your Mama. This collection will prove indispensable not only to Langston Hughes specialists but to all students of twentieth-century African-American literature.

1. The Weary Blues, 1926
2. Fine Clothes to the Jew, 1927
3. Not Without Laughter, 1930
4. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, 1932
5. The Ways of White Folks, 1934
6. The Big Sea, 1940
7. Shakespeare in Harlem, 1942
8. Fields of Wonder, 1947
9. One Way Ticket, 1949
10. Simple Speaks His Mind, 1950
11. Montage of a Dream Deferred, 1951
12. Laughing to Keep From Crying, 1952
13. Simple Takes a Wife, 1953
14. The Sweet Flypaper of Life, 1955
15. I Wonder as I Wander, 1956
16. A Pictorial History of the Negro in America, 1956
17. Simple Stakes a Claim, 1957
18. The Langston Hughes Reader, 1958
19. Tambourines to Glory, 1958
Selected Poems, 1959
20. The Best of Simple, 1961
21. Ask Your Mama, 1961
22. Fight for Freedom, 1962
23. Something in Common and Other Stories, 1963
24. Five Plays by Langston Hughes, 1963
25. Simple's Uncle Sam, 1965
26. The Panther and the Lash, 1967
27. Black Magic, 1967
28. Appendices: additional reprints and checklists
29. Poetry: limited editions and pamphlets
30. Popo and Fifina, 1932
31. The 'First' books
32. The 'Famous' books
Books edited by Hughes
Books translated by Hughes
Selected plays.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]