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Article: Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-43.(Review)
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- The Western Journal of Black Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-43
Author: Joseph McLaren
Westport, Conneticut: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp xvii + 197
"The tom tom laughs and the tom tom cries" (ix). McLaren begins his critical study with a quote from Hughes's "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". From the very beginning, we are reminded that Hughes wrote of all things being black, bringing together elements of folk life and protest. We see it in Langston Hughes--the poet, Langston Hughes--the fiction writer, and Langston Hughes--the critic. McLaren's text places before the reader a question of challenge: "Do you know Langston Hughes--the ...