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The Short Stories of Langston Hughes |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Yum
Comments: I am not usually a big fan of short stories however I love these. They are insightful, attention grabbing and always interesting. I got this book as a gift when I was 15 still come back to it frequently years later. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Wonderful Collection of Hughes' Works
Comments: The book contains over 40 short stories and 4 early works by Langston Hughes. As a high school student, I have enjoyed each and e work of Hughes and I am fond of his writings. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: The Dean of Black American Literature & American Lit
Comments: Langston Hughes entire body of work is a testament to his love and pride of being a black American. Though he never excluded his common bond of brotherhood with other people of non-African decent, black Americans occupied 1st place in his affections and concerns. He never turned his back to them to win the approbation of a larger audience by catering to stereotypes. He had a profound dislike for blacks ashamed of being black,ashamed or who denied their African heritage, ashamed of their skin, and who catered to the worst prejudices of the larger audience in any medium for profit and fame or just to be liked and accepted--like a worrisome number today.
Like his poetry, Hughes short stories reflected much of his philosophy about being proudly black and the shared commonality of all people. Here in LANGSTON HUGHES: SHORT STORIES, edited by Akiba Sullivan Harper with and introduction by Arnold Rampersad, is the proof. Many of the stories presented here are those that have been out of print for some time ,or, are being printed for the 1st time since they were maked. Much like the COLLECTED POEMS by Rampersad, an effort has been made to put the stories in chronological order by the date they were written or published. In all the stories represent a brief overview of specific short stories, not "all" Hughes short stories, and are different in tone and universal in some topics while still embracing black identity. My favorites are "Blessed Assurance" (protesting homophobia in the black community and black church in Hughes's own understandably gay closeted way) and those inspired by his early sea travels. The appendix of this book contains those stories written when Hughes was still in high school.
Like much of Hughes body of work, what he produced is still relevant today in1way or another as in the day he 1st put pen to paper or struck the keys of a typewriter to entertain and make a statement. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: The BEST insight in the human condition
Comments: If you want to read some really deep and powerful insights into the human condition, check out "Mary Winowsky" (written when LH was in HIGH SCHOOL!!), "The Gun," Fine Accomodations," "One Friday Morning," "The Little Virgin," "The Young Glory of Him." These stories will make you weep and think about the eday people you pass in the street and wonder about the stories they may have inside of them. This book should be in E literature class!!This book tells more than just what it is to be Black, it says a lot about being human. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: WONDERFUL!!
Comments: THIS BOOK IS honestly A MASTERPIECE!!I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED LANGSTON HUGHES WHETHER IT WAS HIS POETRY OR HIS SHORT STORIES. HE WAS A INTELLIGIENT MIND(WHAT A BRILLIANT MAN). R.I.P. MY DEAR LANGSTON!! |
