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The Big Sea: An Autobiography
"This book is the chronicle of a bright and lively artistic ear that brought the African-American people full into the twentieth century. It is a wonderful book!" --Amiri Baraka
In his incisive introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic, Arnold Rampersad writes: "This is American writing at its best--simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain."
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."
Book Details
- Publisher: Hill & Wang
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 1993
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - 0002
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.40in - 1.10in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780809015498
- Categories: • American - African American & Black• African American & Black
About the Author
Arnold Rampersad, Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University, is the author of The Life of Langston Hughes and editor of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes.
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What people are saying
Wandering the world researching & writing about Black culture 🌍 〰️ Founder @thosewhosoar 〰️ rep: @RhetoricAndThis / @JanklowNesbit 〰️ A force 💥
Visited the library in Alexandria where in 1939 five Black men & boys participated in a library sit-in, reading books quietly when denied library cards bc the library was segregated. There, I read a chapter of Langston Hughes THE BIG SEA abt his travels to Italy. Fed my soul. ✨ https://t.co/o22sNR6PN9
feminist | gay | black | imagining freedom
in The Big Sea, Langston Hughes tells an anecdote about some of the DC Black Bourgeoisie boasting they were from George Washington, from "the wrong side of the blanket." (The boasts about presidential relatives have long histories.)
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“…the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you’ll finish it,….” – The Big Sea, 1940 The stars must be aligned that we can celebrate Langston Hughes on his birthday as #LGBTplusHM begins. #Harlem #Poetry https://t.co/vjWbAgn2fz
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What people are saying
Wandering the world researching & writing about Black culture 🌍 〰️ Founder @thosewhosoar 〰️ rep: @RhetoricAndThis / @JanklowNesbit 〰️ A force 💥
Visited the library in Alexandria where in 1939 five Black men & boys participated in a library sit-in, reading books quietly when denied library cards bc the library was segregated. There, I read a chapter of Langston Hughes THE BIG SEA abt his travels to Italy. Fed my soul. ✨ https://t.co/o22sNR6PN9
feminist | gay | black | imagining freedom
in The Big Sea, Langston Hughes tells an anecdote about some of the DC Black Bourgeoisie boasting they were from George Washington, from "the wrong side of the blanket." (The boasts about presidential relatives have long histories.)