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Article: Susan Duffy, ed. The Political Plays of Langston Hughes.(Book Review)
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- African American Review
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- December 22, 2004
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Susan Duffy, ed. The Political Plays of Langston Hughes. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2000. 221 pp. $19.95; Christopher C. De Santis, ed. Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1995. 261 pp. $17.95; Hans Ostrom. Langston Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York, Twayne, 1993. 125 pp. $31.00.
By 2026 literary criticism and theory on the life and work of Langston Hughes will enter a second century of inquiry. By then it will be the primary work of the current and earlier decades that will have facilitated such new horizons. For years, during the 1970s and 80s, Houston A. Baker, ...