France held a special value for Langston Hughes even before he first visited Paris. "I will never forget the thrill of first understanding the French of de Maupassant," he writes in The Big Sea (1940). "I think it was de Maupassant who made me really wan...
American author Langston Hughes (1902-1967), a moving spirit in the artistic ferment of the 1920s often called the Harlem Renaissance, expressed the mind and spirit of most African Americans for nearly half a century. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin,...
As a household name for so many readers of varying persuasions, Langston Hughes was perhaps the most significant black American writer in the twentieth century. From the Harlem Renaissance of the early twenties, to the Black Arts reorientations of the si...
Tambourines to Glory is a 1956 black gospel musical play by Langston Hughes. It tells the story of two female street preachers who open a store front church in Harlem. Hughes later turned the play into a novel in 1958. The musical was generally...
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 8: The Novels: Not Without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory, edited by Dolan Hubbard. This fourth of a projected 18 volumes of the collected poems, plays, fiction, and nonfiction works of one of America's most talented...
Two years of practising in a London dance studio couldn't prepare JEANNETTE HYDE for the cartwheeling rigours of a session with the masters of capoeira in Brazil MY FIRST brush with the Brazilian fighting dance of capoeira was life-threatening. Five years ago in Salvador,...
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