'Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets)' by Joseph McLaren (only $119.95)


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Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets)

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by: Joseph McLaren See Larger Image Amazon.com's Price: $119.95 as of 12/19/2009 00:14 EST Used Price: $28.87 Third Party New Price: $45.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 812.52 EAN: 9780313287190 ISBN: 0313287198 Label: Praeger Manufacturer: Praeger Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 248 Publication Date: December 30, 1997 Publisher: Praeger Studio: Praeger Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Though known primarily as a poet, Langston Hughes crafted well over 40 theatrical works. This book examines Hughes's stage pieces from his first published play, The Gold Piece (1921), through his post-radical wartime effort, For This We Fight (1943). Hughes's stage writing of this period includes such forms as the folk comedy, the protest drama, the historical play and the blues opera. McLaren concludes that the "democratic" argument is ultimately employed by Hughes to challenge segregation in the military and that Hughes's iconography prefigures the black aesthetic of the 1960s. Photographs complement the text.

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