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Street Scenes: Langston Hughes, Lyric Pop, and Walter Benjamin’s Baudelaire
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 443–472.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Matthew Kilbane Abstract This article frames Langston Hughes’s 1947 collaboration with composer Kurt Weill on the “Broadway opera” Street Scene as a privileged opportunity to explore modern history’s extraordinary claims on poetic language and the limitations of allegoresis as a critical mode...
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Langston Hughes’s Constructivist Poetics
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 585–612.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Kristin Grogan Abstract This essay explores the relationship between Langston Hughes’s 1930s poetry and the Soviet avant-garde theater. It argues that the constructivist theater provides an aesthetic framework through which to read Hughes’s radical poetry. Often read as an artistic failure...
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Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Lisa Hollenbach In the late 1940s and early 1950s, large-scale population shifts, urban-development projects, and new media transformed New York City in ways that were heard as much as seen. In this context, Langston Hughes and sound documentarian Tony Schwartz each experimented with techniques...
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Hughes/Olson: Whose Music? Whose Era?
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 303–330.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Benjamin R. Lempert This essay uses two poetic works from the 1950s—Langston Hughes’s 1951 sequence Montage of a Dream Deferred and the poetry and poetics of Black Mountain pioneer Charles Olson—to articulate a theory of racially engaged, nonmimetic poetic musicality deriving from the engagement...
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After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics across the Atlantic the Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Tyrone Williams After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics across the Atlantic . By Infante Ignacio . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2013 . xiv , 217 pp. $45.00 . The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas...
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Jazz, Black Transnationalism, and the Political Aesthetics of Langston Hughes’s Ask Your Mama
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 563–587.
Published: 01 September 2012
...John Lowney Lowney’s essay examines how Langston Hughes’s cultural work in the 1950s and early 1960s illustrates the challenge of developing a progressive black transnationalist literary culture. It concentrates especially on Hughes’s longest and most ambitious poem, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods...
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Langston Hughes and the “Nonsense” of Bebop
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 357–385.
Published: 01 June 2000
...John Lowney Duke University Press 2000 John Langston Hughes and the ‘‘Nonsense’’ of Bebop
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6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 119 of223 In terms of current Afro-American popular music...
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The Sounds of Black Laughter and the Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 57–81.
Published: 01 March 2008
... with the acoustics of white power, this laughter also found a significant place in the poetry of Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes. In what Emily Thompson has called an “increasingly `sound-conscious'” era, these poets registered and analyzed the emergence of this new, combative black laugh...
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The Political Plays of Langston Hughes
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 171–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Hughes. By Susan Duffy. Carbondale: Southern Illi-
nois Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 221 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95.
Many of the major Harlem Renaissance poets and fiction writers tried their
hands at play writing at least once. Whether as collaborators or single au-
thors, Arna Bontemps, Countee...
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A worksheet for Hughes’s “Wrapped in a Ribbon, Tied in a Bow” (Hughes Paper...
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 2 A worksheet for Hughes’s “Wrapped in a Ribbon, Tied in a Bow” (Hughes Papers: “Song Drafts: Street Scene , box 356, folders 5733). Used by Permission of the Estate of Langston Hughes, Harold Ober Associates, and International Literary Properties LLC
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Amy E. Hughes Collectively, these books remind us that quotidian experience is, to employ Gallagher-Ross’s words, “always disappearing, replaced by new perceptions, vanishing into routine, . . . as ephemeral as any theatrical performance” (4), and that the theater can serve as an entrée...
View articletitled, Show Town: Theater and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1920 Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage
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“Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in African American Literature
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 December 2020
... into a range of aesthetic experiences. This can be observed in the Beethovenian ekphrasis featured in prose works by James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison—four writers whose works have also been considered indebted to blues and jazz musical influences and who approach...
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O Cant: Singing the Race Music of Jean Toomer's Cane
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 725–752.
Published: 01 December 2010
...-of-the-century American theater, Tin Pan Alley and the music industry, anthropology and ethnography in the southern United States, and Toomer's debts or relations to other writers of the Harlem Renaissance, among them James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, and Langston Hughes. © 2010 by Duke...
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Reading Playboy for the Science Fiction
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 June 2015
... rationality of scientific management. In addition to offering close readings of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and “The Fly” by George Langelaan, this essay demonstrates that Playboy editor and publisher Hugh Hefner himself was a science-fictional figure, representing the fantasy of a human merging...
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Strange Beauty: The Politics of Ungenre in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Davis’s 1861 novella Life in the Iron Mills presents an apposite case study for the constitutive relation of art and politics in the nineteenth-century American context. The text’s efforts culminate in its central figure: the korl woman statue carved by Hugh Wolf out of the waste material...
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Ruins Amidst Ruins: Black Classicism and the Empire of Slavery
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., and situating key literary figures—most prominently Charles Chesnutt—within this tradition. Chesnutt and others (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Toni Morrison among them) adapt and revise multiple mythic traditions—ancient and modern, “African” and “American,” “black” and “white”—to counter an exceptionalist...
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The Vernacular Sonnet and the Resurgence of Afro-Modernism in the 1940s
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 253–273.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Timo Müller The essay offers a new perspective on the resurgence of Afro-modernism in the 1940s, arguing that the vernacular sonnet—specifically Langston Hughes’s “Seven Moments of Love: An Un-Sonnet Sequence in Blues” and the sonnets of Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden—played a crucial role...
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“A form of life in which art is not art”: “Life in the Iron Mills” and the Artist as Worker in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in the Iron Mills” is, in part, straightforward social reform literature. It exposes the horrific working conditions and abject poverty of Welsh immigrants employed in Virginia’s iron mills in the late 1850s. Davis tells the story of Welsh mill worker Hugh Wolfe, whose natural talents as a sculptor, which...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 411–414.
Published: 01 June 2016
... history of race relations at a time when the Pacific nations themselves were redefining their borders and ideologies. For her part, Walsh explores the spatial poetics of US-born modernist poets—starting with Walt Whitman, she moves on to Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, and H.D.—and their revision...
View articletitled, The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature The Geopoetics of Modernism The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars
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Index to Volume 87 (March 2015–December 2015)
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
...; A Common Strangeness: Con-
temporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature by
Jacob Edmond; The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde
by Ruth Jennison, 618–22.
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Hollenbach, Lisa. “Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz...
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