Not So Simple: The Simple Stories by Langston Hughes

by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper

Book Overview

The "Simple" stories, Langston Hughes's satirical pieces featuring Harlem's Jesse B. Semple, have been lauded as Hughes's greatest contribution to American fiction. In Not So Simple, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper provides the first full historical analysis of the Simple stories.

Harper traces the evolution and development of Simple from his 1943 appearance in Hughes's weekly Chicago Defender column through his 1965 farewell in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826210880
• ISBN13: 9780826210883
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5