Langston Hughes

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Not Without Laughter~5 Std. Lesezeit English
You follow a boy named Sandy through a Black Kansas town, and Hughes gives you everything: his grandmother Aunt Hager at her washtubs, his father Jimboy drifting in with a guitar. It moves slowly and hums with blues, tender about poverty without ever going soft on it.
Poetry~1 Std. Lesezeit English
Hughes gets blues and jazz onto the page: The Weary Blues, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, lines that look simple and land hard. If poetry usually feels like homework, his voice reads like someone talking straight to you.
The Mule-BoneLangston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston~1 Std. Lesezeit English
It's a small-town comedy where two best friends fall out over a girl, one gets clonked with a mule bone, and the whole trial hinges on whether a bone counts as a weapon, Baptists versus Methodists arguing scripture. If you love porch talk and folk wit, this is pure Eatonville.