The Virginia Quarterly Review, April 1st, 2002
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 writers reprints two of Langston Hughes's novels from different periods of his career. The autobiographical Not Without Laughter (1930), his first novel, tells the story of a black boy growing into manhood under his grandmother's roof in a small Kansas town in the early 1900's and details his experiences with racism, family, class...
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