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“Langston Hughes is the Jazz Poet! The constant communicator of Blues. He is the singer, philosopher, the folk and urban lyricist. This book is the chronicle of a bright and lively artistic ear that brought the African-American people full into the twentieth century. It is a wonderful book!†―Amiri Baraka
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About the Author
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, went to Cleveland, Ohio, lived for a number of years in Chicago, and long resided in New York City's Harlem. He graduated from Lincoln University in 1929 and was awarded an honorary Litt. D. in 1943. He was perhaps best known as a poet and the creator of Simple, but he also wrote novels, biography, history, plays (several of them Broadway hits), and children's books, and he edited several anthologies. Mr. Hughes died in 1967.Arnold Rampersad, author of the widely acclaimed biography The Life of Langston Hughes, is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature and director of American Studies at Princeton University.
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Product details
Series: American Century Series
Paperback: 335 pages
Publisher: Hill and Wang; Second edition (August 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0809015498
ISBN-13: 978-0809015498
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.6 out of 5 stars
38 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#74,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
read this over the weekend. very friendly and personal. articulate. felt connected to the brother. not too much has changed on the color lines and white supremacy in states, and applaud other parts of the world for looking at black men as human vs states daily trying to dehumanize them. not all whites are racist, but white supremacy I think is used as a distraction and to intentionally anger us. L Hughes overcame a lot and it was a pleasure to read about his travels and the harlem renaisance. My brother, rest in power.
If you don't know much about the life of Langston, then this is a good place to start. Written over 50 years ago, it provides a sanitized glimpse into the life of this iconic American poet. He is skillful not to revealing to many details of his personal life while at the same time giving the reader insight into some key events that helped shape the man we have come to know. Langston was a complicated young man who, from this account, spent a number of years just trying to find himself and his place in society. His writing was more inspired by the down times than by the up times and his adventures both here and abroad far exceeded what I would have expected from a young black many of his day. I would recommend this book for High School reading and discussion, and encourage young adults to give thought and discussion to how Langston was willing to take some calculated chances and explore the world beyond what lay before him.
Published when Hughes was 38, the subject of The Big Sea is the period of his life from 1902-1939. It covers a wide variety of episodes in Hughes' life, with key elements being his travels as a youth, his relationship to his father, and the Harlem Renaissance.I knew his poetry, of course, from all those years as an English major. I have not had the occasion to read any of his prose, and decided to pick this up after reading the collected works of Nella Larsen.There was a lot to engage with in The Big Sea. I particularly liked Hughes' description of the Harlem Renaissance. His tone when he talked about it was affectionate and wistful, but still acknowledged the limitations that it had as a lasting solution. There were many great stories ("never hit a woman") and fascinating details-- reproductions of the whist party invitations, for example.I also really was interested in the way that Hughes discusses his father and the issue of the race. His father left the US (first to Cuba, then to Mexico) in order to avoid race prejudice. His father had nothing but scorn for people of color who stayed in the US and subjected themselves to the inevitabilities of race and class limitations. The anger that this self-imposed exile cost him comes out in his dealings with his son and the way in which he engages with the world around him.At points, it is as though Hughes is meditating on all the different ways that people around him (including him) have used to address the race problem. It is not the most uplifting of sketches, since none of the various paths seem (according to Hughes) to be a good or lasting solution.Well-written, interesting, and with many pointers to further reading.
This expansive, witty, completely surprising autobiography is one of the best books about a young writer in search of himself and his voice since Joyce's "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man." Thinking of Langston Hughes primarily as a Harlem Renaissance writer is like thinking of Joyce an early 20th century European writer: factual but woefully limited.
Langston Hughes was a wonderful poet and story teller so it is not surprising that his autobiography/memoir is a joy to read. He tells the story of his life by giving us delightful episodes that each read like short stories. Each chapter has the structure of a short story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. Along the way, the reader has to be amazed at the texture and breadth of his life adventures. He lives for a short time in Mexico with his father, in several cities with his mother and other relatives, and then his wonderful sea going adventures in Europe, Africa, and also his stay in Paris. The reader also gets a first hand glimpse of what it was like to be "Negro" in America as well as in other places in the world. The writing is bright and energetic and the book is very difficult to put down. I highly recommend it to anyone who might be thinking about writing an autobiography or memoir.
I love autobiographies and how they can take you into another world. This book did exactly that; it left me with a greater understanding of the times that Langston Hughes lived. He wrote in depth about how he wrote certain poems, what brought them to life in his mind. His writing is colorful and brings vivid imagery to your mind. I was really amazed by all he had done, places he traveled to & work he did. His comparison of the way he was treated as a black man in America, compared to Mexico, Europe, and Africa is eye opening. You really feel like you know Langston Hughes after reading this book.
An amazing autobiography of such a rich life of a young black man in virtually every scenario one could think of. I like his style of writing. There is connection with him and his characters, yet a very well laid sense of objectivity in a very tumultuous time. Great reading for history buffs interested in the black experience during World War on and the contrasts of thoughts on African Americans from a European, African and American standpoint. Well Done
Excellent book of the life and times of Langston Hughes with his advantages of life.
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