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Zusatztext Meticulously annotatedserves up a textured! ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents. The New York Times Book Review Much of the history of race relationsand literary historyin America during the first half of the 20th century is represented here. . . . A magnificent contribution to our understanding of an important friendship. The Washington Post Remember Me to Harlem is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance! it is also a delightful collection of gossipy correspondence between two of its leadingand most intriguingcharacters. Henry Louis Gates! Jr. If you're interested in the Harlem Renaissance! you can't afford to miss this book. Vibe Remember Me to Harlem serves up a textured! ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents . --David Levering Lewis! The New York Times Book Review A remarkable work that reveals a complicated relationship between two important U.S. literary figures whose long friendship reached across the racial divide The Miami Herald Informationen zum Autor Emily Bernard lives in Burlington, Vermont. Klappentext Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy! lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten! a flamboyant white critic! writer! and photographer whose ardent support of black artists was peerless. Despite their differences Van Vechten was forty-four to Hughes twenty-two when they met-Hughes' and Van Vechten's shared interest in black culture lead to a deeply-felt! if unconventional friendship that would span some forty years. Between them they knew everyone from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright! and their letters! lovingly and expertly collected here for the first time! are filled with gossip about the antics of the great and the forgotten! as well as with talk that ranged from race relations to blues lyrics to the nightspots of Harlem! which they both loved to prowl. It's a correspondence that! as Emily Bernard notes in her introduction! provides "an unusual record of entertainment! politics! and culture as seen through the eyes of two fascinating and irreverent men. Leseprobe Chapter 1 1925-1926 When the correspondence between Carl Van Vechten and Langston Hughes began, Van Vechten was in New York, tirelessly cultivating an expertise on Harlem life. Hughes was in Washington, D.C., living with his mother and working as a personal assistant for the "father of Negro history," Carter G. Woodson, who founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915. Hughes performed secretarial chores and worked on Woodson's massive study, Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830. After hours, Hughes would head for Seventh Street, where he found "sweet relief." There, "ordinary Negroes . . . played the blues, ate watermelon, barbecue, and fish sandwiches, shot pool, told tall tales, looked at the dome of the Capitol and laughed out loud," he recalled in his 1940 autobiography, The Big Sea. The life there inspired his poetry. "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street-gay songs, because you had to be gay or die; sad songs, because you couldn't help being sad sometimes. But gay or sad, you kept on living and you kept on going. Their songs-those of Seventh Street-had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." During his time in Washington, Hughes wrote and published more poetry than he had since he started writing at the age of thirteen. carl van vechten to langston hughes, may 6, 1925 Dear Langston, <b...
“Much of the history of race relations–and literary history–in America during the first half of the 20th century is represented here. . . . A magnificent contribution to our understanding of an important friendship.”–*The Washington Post
“Remember Me to Harlem is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, it is also a delightful collection of gossipy correspondence between two of its leading–and most intriguing–characters.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“*Remember Me to Harlem serves up a textured, ribald and frequently poignant interracial friendship between two remarkable talents.” --David Levering Lewis, *The New York Times Book Review
*“A remarkable work that reveals a complicated relationship between two important U.S. literary figures whose long friendship reached across the racial divide” –*The Miami Herald
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Emily Bernard lives in Burlington, Vermont.
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Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic, writer, and photographer whose ardent support of black artists was peerless.
Despite their differences — Van Vechten was forty-four to Hughes twenty-two when they met-Hughes' and Van Vechten's shared interest in black culture lead to a deeply-felt, if unconventional friendship that would span some forty years. Between them they knew everyone — from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright, and their letters, lovingly and expertly collected here for the first time, are filled with gossip about the antics of the great and the forgotten, as well as with talk that ranged from race relations to blues lyrics to the nightspots of Harlem, which they both loved to prowl. It's a correspondence that, as Emily Bernard notes in her introduction, provides "an unusual record of entertainment, politics, and culture as seen through the eyes of two fascinating and irreverent men.
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Chapter 1
1925-1926
When the correspondence between Carl Van Vechten and Langston Hughes began, Van Vechten was in New York, tirelessly cultivating an expertise on Harlem life. Hughes was in Washington, D.C., living with his mother and working as a personal assistant for the "father of Negro history," Carter G. Woodson, who founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915. Hughes performed secretarial chores and worked on Woodson's massive study, Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830.
After hours, Hughes would head for Seventh Street, where he found "sweet relief." There, "ordinary Negroes . . . played the blues, ate watermelon, barbecue, and fish sandwiches, shot pool, told tall tales, looked at the dome of the Capitol and laughed out loud," he recalled in his 1940 autobiography, The Big Sea. The life there inspired his poetry. "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street-gay songs, because you had to be gay or die; sad songs, because you couldn't help being sad sometimes. But gay or sad, you kept on living and you kept on going. Their songs-those of Seventh Street-had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going."
During his time in Washington, Hughes wrote and published more poetry than he had since he started writing at the age of thirteen.
carl van vechten to langston hughes, may 6, 1925
Dear Langston,
I haven't heard from you since your return;1 I hope you haven't forgotten that you promised to send your book2 back as soon as it is rearranged. I s…