Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0104
Joseph Ross
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0029
L. Vrana
Classically trained Black musician Leyla McCalla’s album Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes (2014) intertwines innovative folk- and blues-inspired settings of Hughes’s blues poetry, interpretations of traditional Haitian folk songs, and original compositions. This article argues that the album constitutes both a vital homage to Hughes’s impact on Black diasporic culture and a feminist boundary-breaking reshaping of the expectations of the hegemonic, white-washing contemporary music industry. It reads together the album’s ambitious liner notes, accompanying visual elements, and sonic choices of selected tracks to show how McCalla, by innovatively syncretizing typically disparate genres, inherits and extends the radical political and cultural tradition of the blues women whom Hughes’s poetry often depicted. Thus, it draws on frameworks from Hughes criticism and from performance studies scholars such as Daphne Brooks to suggest that Black female artists like McCalla warrant the attention of diasporic cultural critics equally to and alongside aesthetic ancestors like Hughes who inspire them. These women are epistemologically intervening in the construction of literary and cultural history through projects like Vari-Colored Songs, an impressive artifact that wrenchingly brings together traditions to address diasporic problems such as eco-precarity and to celebrate Black women’s resilient persistence through such endemic conditions.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0051
Howard Rambsy II
Access to a range of audio and video recordings of poems gives African American students exciting opportunities to engage literary art. Their interest in “YouTube poems” reflects an important combination: a longstanding veneration of dynamic African American speech acts and new developments in the circulation and consumption of poetry. Audio recordings and YouTube facilitate the interplay of technology and enduring Black verbal practices in African American literature classes in ways that are far less possible when professors only assign print-based texts. Just as important, engaging YouTube poems created pathways for Black women students to actively participate in cultural criticism.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0091
R. Jelks
This review article examines Zora Neale Hurston’s views on the joyful existence of Afro-Southerners. She did not believe the South was backward or inferior to middle-class northerners. The article explores philosopher Lindsey Stewart’s book The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism and Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s and Genevieve West’s Zora Neale Hurston, You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays to think through issues of Black blame and self-loathing.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0077
M. Boyd
“Requiem for Naomi Long Madgett” opens with Madgett’s funeral, expressed in poetry in poetic prose. “Requiem” captures prominent moments in the last weeks of one of the most productive and influential literary figures in American culture, as it reflects on her legacy as a poet and a publisher. Madgett met Langston Hughes when she was a student at Lincoln University. He was so impressed with her poetry that he read one of her poems during his poetry reading, and he continued to mentor her literary development. The article considers this impact on Madgett’s career and contains a critical discussion of her most prominent poems as well as the release of her ninth book of poetry a few months before she died. Comments from prominent writers, in particular Detroit’s award-winning playwright and poet Bill Harris, capture the profundity of her work as a parting gift. The article also reiterates her creative production as founding editor of Lotus Press during the Black Arts Movement, a time when publishing opportunities were limited for Black writers. In tandem with Dudley Randall’s Broadside Press, Madgett’s Lotus Press made Detroit the most productive site for Black poetry production during the 1960s and ’70s.
《Naomi Long Madgett安魂曲》以Madgett的葬礼开场，用诗歌和诗意的散文表达。《安魂曲》捕捉了这位美国文化中最富有成效和影响力的文学人物在最后几周的重要时刻，因为它反映了她作为诗人和出版商的遗产。玛格特在林肯大学读书时认识了兰斯顿·休斯。他对她的诗歌印象深刻，在读诗时读了她的一首诗，并继续指导她的文学发展。这篇文章考虑了这对玛格特职业生涯的影响，并对她最著名的诗歌进行了批判性的讨论，以及在她去世前几个月出版的第九本诗集。著名作家的评论，特别是底特律获奖剧作家和诗人比尔·哈里斯的评论，捕捉到了她的作品作为临别礼物的深刻性。这篇文章还重申了她在黑人艺术运动期间作为莲花出版社创始编辑的创造性创作，当时黑人作家的出版机会有限。与达德利·兰德尔的布罗德赛德出版社（Broadside Press）合作，马吉特的莲花出版社（Lotus Press）使底特律成为20世纪60年代和70年代黑人诗歌创作最多产的地方。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0107
Chester Higgins
Other| March 03 2023 Cancelled Chester Higgins Chester Higgins Chester Higgins is an artist who wrestles with issues of memory, place, and identity. He sees his life as a narrative and his photography as its expression. His art gives visual voice to his personal and collective memories. Higgins is especially adept at capturing inside ordinary moments where he finds windows into larger meaning. Light, perspective, and points in time are the pivotal elements he uses to reveal an interior presence within his subjects as he searches for what he identifies as the “Signature of the Spirit.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Langston Hughes Review (2023) 29 (1): 107–108. https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0107 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chester Higgins; Cancelled. The Langston Hughes Review 3 March 2023; 29 (1): 107–108. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0107 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Langston Hughes Review Search Advanced Search You do not currently have access to this content.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0109
Ed Pavlič
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0114
E. West
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