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The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, Volume 5. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

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The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, Volume 5. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

Volume 5 of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes includes the plays Hughes wrote between 1930 and 1942, alone and in collaboration. Almost all the plays were performed during the same period; a few have never seen the stage, but are included because they indicate the range of Hughes’s artistic and political concerns. Because very few of the plays in this volume have been previously published, they disclose a side of Langston Hughes’s artistry that is virtually unknown. The collection greatly expands our understanding of the Hughes legacy, and makes us rethink the history of African American theater.

About the Author

Leslie Sanders is a Professor in York University’s Department of Humanities. She works in African American and Black Canadian literatures and cultures, and literatures of the African diaspora.

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