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Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes (født 1. februar 1901 i Joplin, Missouri[16], død 22. mai 1967 i New York) var en amerikansk poet, borgerrettsforkjemper, romanforfatter, dramatiker og samfunnsdebattant. Han er kjent som en av frontfigurene i den afrikansk-amerikanske kulturbevegelsen Harlem-renessansen.[17] Som lyriker var han en av pionerene innen retningen som fikk betegnelsen «jazz poetry».

Langston Hughes
Født1. feb. 1901[1][2][3]Rediger på Wikidata
Joplin[4][5]
Død22. mai 1967[6][7][8][9]Rediger på Wikidata (66 år)
New York[10]
BeskjeftigelseLyriker, romanforfatter, dramatiker, essayist, skribent, journalist, barnebokforfatter, biograf, kommentator Rediger på Wikidata
Utdannet vedLincoln University
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science
FarJames Nathaniel Hughes[11]
MorCarrie Langston[11]
NasjonalitetUSA
GravlagtSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture[12]
Medlem avAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Letters
PEN America
UtmerkelserGuggenheim-stipendiet[13]
Spingarn-medaljen (1960)[14]
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1954)
William E. Harmon Foundation award for distinguished achievement among Negroes
Star on Playwrights' Sidewalk[15]
Langston Hughes på Commons
Langston Hughes portrettert av Gordon Parks i 1943 for The U.S. Office of War Information
Langston Hughes' urne er satt ned her, i lobbyen til Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture i New York. Kunstverket som utsmykker gulvet i lobbyen utgangspunkt i Langston Hughes' dikt The Negro Speaks of Rivers, og en av linjene i verket forbinder Joplin, som var fødestedet til Hughes, til Puerto Rico, som var fødestedet til Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938), som forskningsbiblioteket er oppkalt etter. Kunstneren bak verket heter Houston Conwill
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute i Seattle, fotografert i 2007.

Diktet The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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Den norske dikteren og forfatteren André Bjerke ga i 1947 ut antologien Fremmede toner : et utvalg av verdenslyrikken i norsk gjendiktning på Dreyer forlag. Bjerkes gjendiktning av Hughes' dikt The Negro Speaks of Rivers[18] hadde tittelen Negeren taler om floder.[19] Hughes var bare 19 år gammel da han fikk dette diktet på trykk for første gang.[20]

Diktet er utgangspunktet for kunstinstallasjonen Rivers i forskningsbiblioteket Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, som er en filial av New York Public Library. Kunstinstallasjonen er et mosaikkgulv i forskningsbibliotekets lobby, og under gulvet befinner Hughes' urne seg. Kunstneren bak verket heter Houston Conwill.[21][22]

Bibliografi

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Diktsamlinger

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  • 1926: The Weary Blues, Knopf
  • 1927: Fine Clothes to the Jew, Knopf
  • 1931: The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations
  • 1931: Dear Lovely Death
  • 1932: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Knopf
  • 1932: Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play, Golden Stair Press, N.Y.
  • 1938: A New Song; denne utgivelsen inneholdt også diktet "Let America be America Again"
  • 1940: Note on Commercial Theatre
  • 1942: Shakespeare in Harlem, Knopf
  • 1943: Freedom's Plow, New York: Musette Publishers
  • 1943: Jim Crow's Last Stand, Atlanta: Negro Publication Society of America
  • 1947: Fields of Wonder, Knopf
  • 1949: One-Way Ticket
  • 1951: Montage of a Dream Deferred, Holt
  • 1958: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
  • 1961: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, Hill & Wang
  • 1967: The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times
  • 1994: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Knopf

Romaner og novellesamlinger

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  • 1930: Not Without Laughter. Knopf
  • 1934: The Ways of White Folks, Knopf
  • 1950: Simple Speaks His Mind
  • 1952: Laughing to Keep from Crying, Holt
  • 1953: Simple Takes a Wife
  • 1955: The Sweet Flypaper of Life, med fotografier av Roy DeCarava
  • 1957: Simple Stakes a Claim
  • 1958: Tambourines to Glory
  • 1961: The Best of Simple
  • 1963: Something in Common and Other Stories, Hill & Wang
  • 1965: Simple's Uncle Sam
  • 1996: Short Stories of Langston Hughes, Hill & Wang

Andre utgivelser

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  • 1940: The Big Sea, New York: Knopf; selvbiografi[23]
  • 1954: Famous American Negroes
  • 1955: Famous Negro Music Makers, New York: Dodd, Mead
  • 1956: I Wonder as I Wander, New York: Rinehart & Co.
  • 1956: A Pictorial History of the Negro in America, with Milton Meltzer
  • 1958: Famous Negro Heroes of America
  • 1962: Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP
  • 1967: Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment; medforfatter: Milton Meltzer

Skuespill (utvalg)

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Barnebøker

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  • 1932: Popo and Fifina, with Arna Bontemps
  • 1952: The First Book of the Negroes
  • 1954: The First Book of Jazz
  • 1954: Marian Anderson: Famous Concert Singer; medforfatter: Steven C. Tracy
  • 1954: The First Book of Rhythms
  • 1956: The First Book of the West Indies
  • 1964: First Book of Africa
  • 1969: Black Misery, illustrert av Arouni; nytt opplag i 1994, Oxford University Press.

Samlinger og kommentarutgaver (utvalg)

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  • 1958: The Langston Hughes Reader, New York: Braziller
  • 1973: Good Morning Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings by Langston Hughes, Lawrence Hill
  • 2001: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Missouri: University of Missouri Press
  • 2014: The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Knopf
  • "My Adventures as a Social Poet" (essay), Phylon, 3rd Quarter 1947.
  • "The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain" (article), The Nation, June 23, 1926.

Minnesmerker og hedersbevisninger

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I USA har en rekke institusjoner og områder blitt oppkalt etter Langston Hughes.

  • Langston Hughes Memorial Library ved Lincoln University i Pennsylvania ble innviet i 1972. Hughes testamenterte sin private boksamling til Lincoln University, og dette var utgangspunktet for at universitetet bygget et bibliotek til minne om ham[24][25]
  • Langston Hughes High School i Fairburn, Georgia, ble innviet i 2009
  • Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center i Seattle, Washington, ble innviet i 1969
  • Det finnes en mange barneskoler rundt om i USA som er oppkalt etter Langston Hughes, blant annet:
  • I nabolaget Langston Hughes i Baltimore, Maryland[29] ligger det også en Langston Hughes Elementary School

I 1981 vedtok myndighetene i New York å innlemme Langston Hughes' bolig i Harlem, på adressen East 127th Street, blant stedene som har statusen «New York City Landmark».[16] I 1982 fikk hjemmet hans plass på den føderale listen «National Register of Places».[16]

Referanser

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  1. ^ kshs.org[Hentet fra Wikidata]
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  3. ^ nmaahc.si.edu[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  4. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  5. ^ African American Authors, 1745-1945 (1st edition), side(r) 249[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  6. ^ Kunstarkivet, abART person-ID 26426, besøkt 1. april 2021[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  7. ^ Hughes, Langston (01 February 1902?–22 May 1967), writer, besøkt 9. oktober 2017[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  8. ^ Discogs, Discogs artist-ID 350483, besøkt 9. oktober 2017[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  9. ^ Internet Speculative Fiction Database, ISFDB forfatter-ID 20123, besøkt 9. oktober 2017[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  10. ^ Freebase-data fra Google[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  11. ^ a b Genealogics[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  12. ^ Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  13. ^ Guggenheim Fellows database, Guggenheim fellows ID langston-hughes[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  14. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Online, www.britannica.com, Encyclopædia Britannica Online-ID topic/Spingarn-Medal[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  15. ^ www.iobdb.com[Hentet fra Wikidata]
  16. ^ a b c «Langston Hughes». Biography com (på engelsk). Besøkt 20. juni 2021. «Hughes' Harlem home, on East 127th Street, received New York City Landmark status in 1981 and was added to the National Register of Places in 1982. Volumes of his work continue to be published and translated throughout the world.» 
  17. ^ «Langston Hughes Papers, 1862-1980». Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (på engelsk). 14. desember 2018. Besøkt 20. juni 2021. «The career of James Langston Hughes (1902-1967), a central figure during the Harlem Renaissance, spanned five decades. He wrote poetry, short stories, plays, newspaper columns, children’s books, and pictorial histories. He also edited several volumes of prose and fiction by African-American and African writers. Through his writing and through his extensive travels and lecture tours he came into direct contact with an amazing array of writers, artists, activists, and performers of the twentieth century. The Langston Hughes Papers span the years 1862-1980. A view of the life and work of the poet and American literary icon as seen through personal snapshots, pages of manuscripts, printed items, sheet music, and ephemera documenting his wide travels and public appearances.» 
  18. ^ «The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes». Poetry Foundation (på engelsk). 19. juni 2021. Besøkt 20. juni 2021. 
  19. ^ Bjerke, André (1947). Fremmede toner : et utvalg av verdenslyrikken i norsk gjendiktning. Oslo: Dreyer. s. 167. 
  20. ^ «The Schaumburg Center's Langston Hughes memorial». American Libraries Magazine (på engelsk). Besøkt 20. juni 2021. «In 1921, when the poet Langston Hughes was just 19, his poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was published. In 1991, on what would have been his 89th birthday, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a branch of the New York Public Library, held a ceremony around the public art installation made in his honor. His ashes were buried in a small vessel beneath the polished terrazzo floor. The installation, named Rivers, is in the Langston Hughes lobby.» 
  21. ^ «The Schaumburg Center's Langston Hughes memorial». American Libraries Magazine (på engelsk). Arkivert fra originalen 24. juni 2021. Besøkt 20. juni 2021. 
  22. ^ «Self Guided Tour» (PDF). Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture. «Rivers is a site-specific public art installation, dance floor, and peace memorial in honor of Langston Hughes and Arturo A. Schomburg. The cosmogram is inspired by Hughes’s brilliant poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Seven edited fragments of the poem are positioned symbolically at relevant geographic locations on the cosmogram. The final words of the poem, “My soul has grown deep like the rivers,” are embedded in the body of a fish shape at the center of the circle. The poet’s cremated remains are interred in a stainless steel book-like vessel beneath this emblem.» 
  23. ^ «The Big Sea : an autobiography by Langston Hughes (digitalutgave på nettstedet Internet Archive)». Besøkt 20. juni 2021. 
  24. ^ «Langston Hughes Memorial Library | Lincoln University». www.lincoln.edu. Besøkt 20. juni 2021. 
  25. ^ «About the Library | Lincoln University». www.lincoln.edu. Besøkt 20. juni 2021. «Langston Hughes Memorial Library is named for one of Lincoln University’s most famous graduates, the celebrated poet Langston Hughes, who also bequeathed his personal library here upon his death in 1967. The library itself is an integral part of the Lincoln experience. The 1972 facility contains areas for microforms, periodicals, computer labs, reading lounges, individual and group study rooms, special collections and the University archives. Students are able to access the library for after hour study through a separate designated entrance. Phase I of a total library renovation was completed in 2008. Phase II of the renovation was completed in 2011.» 
  26. ^ «History / Mission Statement» (på engelsk). Langston Hughes Elementary. Besøkt 20. juni 2021. «Langston Hughes Elementary School first opened its doors at the beginning of the 2000 - 2001 school year, as the 19th elementary school in the Lawrence Public School District. Our school is located on the far-west side of Lawrence, KS, which is currently a high growth area for our community.» 
  27. ^ «Langston Hughes STEM Elementary School». lhughes.cps.edu. Besøkt 20. juni 2021. 
  28. ^ «About Us» (på engelsk). Langston Hughes School of Publishing and Fine Arts (LHS). Arkivert fra originalen 24. juni 2021. Besøkt 20. juni 2021. «Langston Hughes School of Publishing and Fine Arts (LHS) thrives on academic excellence! Its dedicated administration, faculty and staff are committed to preparing our students to compete in today’s global society. LHS is a Pre-K through Grade 5 elementary school named in honor of James Mercer Langston Hughes. At Langston Hughes School, students flourish in both academics and fine arts. Within this structure, the curriculum of Language Arts Literacy, Mathematics, Fine Arts, and Technology are part of every student's daily schedule.» 
  29. ^ «Langston Hughes neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland (MD), 21215 subdivision profile - real estate, apartments, condos, homes, community, population, jobs, income, streets». www.city-data.com. Besøkt 20. juni 2021. 

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