Rural Black Masculinity and the Blues in Not without Laughter

Andy Oler

doi:10.1017/9781009057783

Rural Black Masculinity and the Blues in Not without Laughter

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Abstract

In the 1930 novel Not without Laughter, Langston Hughes represents a wide range of Black experience in the Midwest – the “picturesque” alongside the horrific, the old-fashioned, as well as the modern.Hughes uses the novel’s setting, the small town of Stanton, Kansas, to determine some of the limits placed on protagonist Sandy Rodgers and his family, and their attempts to work through them.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Langston Hughes in Context
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009057783
State	Published - Jan 1 2023

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