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African American dramatists and playwrights
August Wilson, Langston Hughes, Tyler Perry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Shauneille Perry, Ed Bullins, William Wells Brown, Elizabeth Alexander, Lorraine Hansberry, Oscar Brown, Suzan-Lori Parks, Douglas Turner Ward, Adrienne Kennedy
ISBN/EAN: 9781155314075
Umbreit-Nr.: 3948503
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 48 S.
Format in cm: 0.4 x 24.6 x 18.9
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 14.08.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
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- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Chapters: August Wilson, Langston Hughes, Tyler Perry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Shauneille Perry, Ed Bullins, William Wells Brown, Elizabeth Alexander, Lorraine Hansberry, Oscar Brown, Suzan-Lori Parks, Douglas Turner Ward, Adrienne Kennedy, Ntozake Shange, Steve Carter, Anna Deavere Smith, Sonia Sanchez, Bonnie Greer, George C. Wolfe, Joseph A. Walker, Regina Taylor, Samm-Art Williams, Ntare Mwine, Lynn Nottage, C. Bernard Jackson, Bill Gunn, Judi Ann Mason, Angelina Weld Grimké, Charles Fuller, Don Evans, Hilly Hicks, Jr., Mary P. Burrill, Ray Aranha, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Blues People, Regina M. Anderson, Aurin Squire, May Miller, Alice Childress, Levy Lee Simon, Roger Guenveur Smith, Louis S. Peterson, William B. Branch, Aaron White, Willis Richardson, Jason Christopher White, Toni Press-Coffman, Dael Orlandersmith, David E. Talbert. Excerpt: James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "Harlem was in vogue". Both of Hughes' paternal and maternal great-grandmothers were African American, his maternal great-grandfather was white and of Scottish descent. His paternal great-grandfather was of Jewish descent. In 1888, Hughes' grand-uncle, John Mercer Langston, became the first African American to be elected to the United States Congress from Virginia. Hughes's maternal grandmother Mary Patterson was of African American, French, English and Native American descent. One of the first women to attend Oberlin College, she first married Lewis Sheridan Leary, also of mixed race. Lewis Sheridan Leary subsequently joined John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 and died from his wounds. In 1869 the widow Mary Patterson Leary married again, into the elite, politically active Langston family. Her second husband was Charles Henry Langston, of African American, Native American, and Euro-American ancestry. He and his younger brother John Mercer Langston worked for the abolitionist cause and helped lead the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society in 1858. Charles Langston later moved to Kansas where he was active as an educator and activist for voting and rights for African Americans. Charles and Mary's daughter Caroline was the mother of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and James Nathaniel Hughes (1871-1934). Langston Hughes grew up in a series of Midwestern small towns. Hughes's father left his family and later divorced Carrie, going to Cuba, and then Mexico, seeking to escape the enduring racism in the United States. After the separation of his parents, w