Poeme por Langston / Cheikh Amadou Dieng -- Poem for Langston / translated by Mame Selbee Diouf -- Langston Hughes revisited and revised: an introduction / John Edgar Tidwell and Cheryl R. Ragar -- The sacred and the secular -- Langston Hughes and Aunt Hager's children's blues performance: "Six-Bits Blues " / Steven C. Tracy -- Almost, but not quite, bluesmen in Langston Hughes's poetry / Trudier Harris -- Natural and unnatural circumstances in Not Without Laughter / Elizabeth Schultz -- The public and the private -- The sounds of silence: Langston Hughes as a "down-low" brother? / John Edgar Tidwell -- Langston Hughes on the open road: compulsory hetereosexuality and the question of presence / Juda Bennett -- Gender performance and sexual subjectivity in Not Without Laughter: Sandy's emergent masculinity / Kimberly J. Banks -- Mother to son: the letters from Carrie Hughes Clark to Langston Hughes, 1928-1938 / Regennia N. Williams and Carmaletta M. Williams -- Revolutions literary and political -- "Luani of the Jungles" : reimagining the Africa of Heart of Darkness / Jeffrey A. Schwarz -- Langston Hughes's red poetics and the practice of "disalienation" / Robert Young -- The paradox of modernism in The Ways of White Folks / Sandra Y. Govan -- Other words and other worlds -- The empowerment of displacement / Isabel Soto -- "It is the Same Everywhere for Me" : Langston Hughes and the African diaspora's everyman / Lorenzo Thomas -- Montage of a dream destroyed: Langston Hughes in Spain / Michael Thurston -- The Russian connection: interracialism as queer alliance in The Ways of White Folks / Kate A. Baldwin -- Langston Hughes and the boundaries of art -- Langston Hughes and the children's literary tradition / Giselle Liza Anatol -- Circles of liberation and constriction: dance in Not Without Laughter / Joan Stone -- The essayistic vision of Langston Hughes / Christopher C. DeSantis -- Langston Hughes and the movies: the case of Way Down South / Thomas Cripps.