Bibliograph

Not without laughter, Langston Hughes ; introduction by Angela Flournoy

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Not without laughter, Langston Hughes ; introduction by Angela Flournoy

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1000L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Not without laughter

Responsibility statement

Langston Hughes ; introduction by Angela Flournoy

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 6.6, 13, 74684

Summary

When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African American boy in small-town Kansas, and of his family—his mother, Annjee, a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his irresponsible father, Jimboy, who plays the guitar and travels the country in search of employment; his strong-willed grandmother Hager, who clings to her faith; his Aunt Tempy, who marries a rich man; and his Aunt Harriet, who struggles to make it as a blues singer—Hughes gives the longings and lineaments of black life in the early twentieth century an important place in the history of racially divided America

Target audience

adolescent

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