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Langston Hughes : Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Langston Hughes Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition 19211943 - Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies Author:Joseph McLaren 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,... more » 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.« less