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Not So Simple: The Simple Stories by Langston Hughes
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The "Simple" stories, Langston Hughes's satirical pieces featuring Harlem's Jesse B. Semple, have been lauded as Hughes's greatest contribution to American fiction. In Not So Simple, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper provides the first full historical analysis of the Simple stories.
Harper races the evolution and development of Simple from his 1943 appearance in Hughes's weekly Chicago Defender column through his 1965 farewell in the New York Post. Drawing on correspondence and manuscripts o…
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Social SciencesLiteraturePrint BooksPaperbackNonfictionAfrican AmericansAfrican American Arts & EntertainmentLiterary CriticismAmerican LiteraturePoetry - Literary CriticismAfrican American Literature - Literary CriticismAmerican Poetry - 20th Century - Literary Criticism20th Century American Literature - Pre WWII - Literary CriticismHughes, Langston (1902-1967)->Criticism and interpretation