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Other articles where Fine Clothes to the Jew is discussed: Langston Hughes: …a second collection of poetry, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), which was criticized by some for its title and for its frankness, though Hughes himself felt that it represented another step forward in his writing.
Zachary Manditch-Prottas. Political Science. The Black Scholar. 2021. I n the comical vignette published in the Pittsburgh Courier, “Simple’s Comment on Color: It’s a Gasser,” Langston Hughes debates with his most enduring fictional character, the humorous and wise…. Expand. 1 Excerpt.
24 de abr. de 2024 · Description Title Fine clothes to the Jew / by Langston Hughes. Creator Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. Contributor 14:Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Bookplate.
9 de jan. de 2023 · The title of this book, “Fine Clothes To The Jew”, was common slang in Harlem, New York at the time. In essence it meant, when you needed money, you brought your best clothes to a Jewish pawnbroker where you’d get the most possible for the trade. Langston was a Black man writing about the Black experience in the 1920s.
- Langston Hughes
Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), Langston Hughes’s second book of poetry, was his highest achievement, according to Arnold Rampersad, who identifies Hughes’s great innovation as “deliberately defining poetic tradition according to the standards of a group often seen as sub-poetic—the black masses” (“Langston Hughes’s Fine Clothes to the Jew” 145).
1 de jan. de 2023 · The title of this book, “Fine Clothes To The Jew”, was common slang in Harlem, New York at the time. In essence it meant, when you needed money, you brought your best clothes to a Jewish pawnbroker where you’d get the most possible for the trade. Langston was a Black man writing about the Black experience in the 1920s.
- Langston Hughes
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