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Anthologization | Alice Walker | AW
first reached print (outside highschool or college publications) with the story To Hell With Dying, which Langston Hughes
included when he edited The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 119 |
Education | Maya Angelou | Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love. Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1995. 12 |
Friends, Associates | Zora Neale Hurston | Mason was also the patron of Langston Hughes
, Louise Thompson
, and others. ZNH
's friends, both black and white, and many of them influential in various ways, also included Carl Van Vechten
and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Una Marson | In the year leading up to this publication, UM
was reading (mostly male) African-American writers—Booker T. Washington
, James Weldon Johnson
, and |
Occupation | Alice Walker | Among AW
's many lecturing engagements was one at Spelman College
where she spoke on oppressed hair, that is black hair artificially straightened. She established there an annual Zora Neale Hurston
-Langston Hughes
Award... |
Reception | Una Marson | UM
began during her lifetime to receive some recognition for her literary achievements (apart from reviews). In 1956 the Jamaican poet Clare McFarlane
devoted a chapter to her in A Literature in the Making... |
Textual Features | Adrienne Rich | As in other texts, Rich's concerns here are significantly though not exclusively feminist. The first poem in the book, Orion, addresses the well-known hunter constellation as my fierce half-brother: he burns for all... |
Textual Features | Zora Neale Hurston | Of this book Hurston observed to Langston Hughes
that she had aimed to depict a black preacher who was neither a joke nor a Puritan ram-rod, but a human being and poet, as he... |
Textual Production | Alice Walker | AW
published Langston Hughes
, American Poet, a biography designed to make children acquainted with an African-American literary hero. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 468 |
Textual Production | Bessie Head | BH
's eight letters to Langston Hughes
, dated 1960-1 (early in her career), were printed in 2010, with an introduction, in Research in African Literatures. In 1991 Randolph Vigne
edited and published in... |
Textual Production | Zora Neale Hurston | ZNH
and Langston Hughes
composed the play Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts. It was published by HarperPerennial
in 1991. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 61 |
Textual Production | Nancy Cunard | The original book was 855 pages long; it measured twelve inches by ten and half; it was two inches thick; it weighed eight pounds. The title, NEGRO, ran diagonally in large red capitals across... |
Textual Production | Zoë Fairbairns | The preface says that the volume does not pretend to offer answers or solutions. Nor does it attempt to promote a particular political position. Ebersole, Lucinda, and Richard Peabody. “Preface”. Coming to Terms: A Literary Response to Abortion, edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody, The New Press, 1994, p. xiii - xiv. xiii-xiv |
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