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Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
RESOURCES:
  • Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
  • Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
  • Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Langston Hughes.

DATABASE
SEARCH TERMS
RESULTS
Academic Search Premier

langston hughes

Perform the basic search.

Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals."

Provides a number of relevant items.
African-American History and Culture

langston hughes

Perform the basic search.

Provides several biographies and articles about the author.
Arts & Sciences Collection

langston hughes

JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details).

Provides a large number of relevant documents.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online

hughes, langston

Perform the default search.

Provides a short biography, full-text of some poems, and citations to anthologies which contain poems written by the author.
Contemporary Authors

langston hughes

Perform the default search.

Provides a profile of the author's life and works. Includes an extensive list for further reading about the author.
Encyclopedia Britannica

langston hughes

Perform the default search.

Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles and a number of Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP

langston hughes

Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text" and "to refereed publication."

Provides a number of worthy items.

Literature Resource Center

langston hughes

Perform the default (author) search.

After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles (many are full-text).

Provides a number of quality documents and links to additional Web sites.
MagillOnLiterature

langston hughes

Perform the default search.

Provides a number of relevant documents.
Research Library Complete

langston hughes

Perform the basic search. Set the "Database" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary -Research Library."

Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and "Scholarly journals."

Provides a large number of quality items.
Scribner's


Select "Writers A-Z" and click on the Hughes, Langston link.

Provides an essay about the author and her works, along with a bibliography.
SIRS Renaissance

langston hughes

Perform the "Quick Search."

Provides a number of quality items.
Story Finder

langston hughes

Perform the "Basic Search" and click on the "By Full Text" link to view more results.

Provides a small number of full-text items by the author.

SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

  • The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
  • Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
  • eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.


    To find works written by Langston Hughes, do a catalog search for langston hughes and select the Author option. To find works written about the author, select the Search everything option. The following are selected titles from among the Troy libraries’ holdings. Search the library catalog for more results.

From Harlem to Paris : Black American writers in France, 1840-1980
PS153.N5 F34 1991
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

Autobiography : I wonder as I wander
Location: eBook

The plays to 1942 : Mulatto to The Sun Do Move
Location: eBook

The early Simple stories
Location: eBook

The later Simple stories
Location: eBook

Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
Location: eBook

The short stories
Location: eBook

The novels : Not without laughter, and, Tambourines to glory
Location: eBook

Fight for freedom and other writings on civil rights
Location: eBook

Works for children and young adults : biographies
Location: eBook

The political plays of Langston Hughes
Location: eBook

Langston Hughes : comprehensive research and study guide
Location: eBook

Fight for freedom and other writings on civil rights
Location: eBook

Langston Hughes : the man, his art, and his continuing influence
PS3515 .U274 Z6733 1995
Location: Montgomery, Phenix City

Langston Hughes in the Hispanic world and Haiti
PS3515.U274 A6 1977
Location: Dothan

Langston Hughes
PS3515 .U274 Z668 1989
Location: Dothan, Montgomery, Phenix City

Langston Hughes : critical perspectives past and present
PS3515.U274 Z672 1993
Location: Troy, AL; Montgomery

Langston Hughes
PS3515.U274 Z615
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes letters, 1925-1967
PS3503.O474 Z486 1980
Location: Dothan

Langston Hughes & the blues
PS3515.U274 Z8 1988
Location: Troy, AL

African American literature : an anthology of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama
PS508.N3 A33 1993
Location: Dothan

Not so simple : the "Simple" stories by Langston Hughes
PS3515 .U274 Z645 1995
Location: Dothan, Montgomery

Remember me to Harlem : the letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964
PS3515 .U274 Z598 2001
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

Fight for freedom and other writings on civil rights
E185.5 .N276 H8 2001
Location: Troy, AL

The big sea : an autobiography
PS3515 .U274 Z5 1963
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City

Langston Hughes
PS3515.U274 Z64
Location: Troy, AL

Langston Hughes; a biography
PS3315.U274 Z68
Location: Troy, AL

I wonder as I wander ; an autobiographical journey
PS3515.U274 Z54 1974
Location: Troy, AL

Langston Hughes
PS3515 .U274 Z615 1977
Location: Phenix City

Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks : a reference guide
Z8423.3 .M54 1978
Location: Phenix City

Critical essays on Langston Hughes
PS3515.U274 Z618 1986
Location: Troy, AL

The life of Langston Hughes: Vol.2; 1941-1967, I Dream a World
PS3515.U274 Z698 1986
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

The life of Langston Hughes: Vol.1; I, Too, Sing America
PS3515.U274 Z698 1988
Location: Dothan

The art and imagination of Langston Hughes
PS3515.U274 Z684 1989
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

The collected poems of Langston Hughes
PS3515 .U274 A17 1994
Location: Phenix City, Montgomery

Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate : looking at the Harlem Renaissance through poems
PS591 .N4 S55 1996
Location: Troy, AL

The collected works of Langston Hughes
PS3515 .U274 2001
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City

Visiting Langston
PS3566 .E691216 V5 2002
Location: Dothan

The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949
PN6109.7.H8
Location: Troy, AL

Famous American Negroes
E185.96.H8 1954
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

Simply heavenly; a comedy with music
PS3515.U274 S5 1959
Location: Troy, AL

Black poets of the United States; from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes
PS153.N5 W313
Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

The best of Simple
PS3515.U274 B4 1988
Location: Troy, AL

Liberating voices : oral tradition in African American literature
PS153.N5 J66 1991
Location: Troy, AL

Short stories
PS3515 .U274 A6 1996B
Location: Troy, AL

Poems
PS3515 .U274 A6 1999
Location: Phenix City

See also the bibliography for African-American Literature.

The reference books are held by the Eglin Base Library, and OWC Library (Niceville) and contain collections of criticism on the author’s works. Ask your library personnel how to use them.


SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>

  • Langston Hughes: A Centennial Tribute
    http://www.founders.howard.edu/Reference/Webliographies/Langston_Hughes2_files/Langston_Hughes2.htm

  • Langston Hughes
    http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C0E01

  • James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
    http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm

  • Langston Hughes
    http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedy2_awl/chapter12

  • Hughes Teacher Resource File
    http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm

  • Modern American Poetry: Langston Hughes
    http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm


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