Aunt Sue's Stories

Aunt Sue's Stories Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Dance, Daryl Cumber. ""Aunt Sue's Stories": The Use of Folklore in the Teaching of Literature." In Afro-American Perspectives in the Humanities, edited by Chester M. Hedgepeth, 11-17. San Diego: Collegiate Publishing, 1980.

  • Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, “Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston, grandmother of Langston Hughes,” Colored Conventions Project Digital Records, accessed June 24, 2023, https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/1452.

  • Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Langston Hughes". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 May. 2023,https://www.britannica.com/biography/Langston-Hughes. Accessed 24 June 2023.

  • Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "The Crisis". Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Jan. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Crisis-American-magazine. Accessed 24 June 2023.

  • Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes. Copyright © 2002 by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.

  • Murray, Joshua M. “Taken by the Sea Wind: Langston Hughes and the Currents of Black Identity.” Atlantic Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, June 2023, pp. 277–91. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.proxy.uchicago.edu/10.1080/14788810.2021.2000833.

  • Glynn Young . "The Early Poetry of Langston Hughes ." Tweetspeakpoetry.com. February 28, 2023. June 25, 2023 . <https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2023/02/28/the-early-poetry-of-langston-hughes/>.
  • Adam Rothman. "Slavery and Settlement." Mississippi Encyclopedia. July 11, 2017 . July 13, 2023 . <http://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/slavery-and-settlement/>.
  • Benjamin Voigt . "Langston Hughes 101: Understanding a poet of the people, for the people." Poetry Foundation. March 25, 2016 . July 19, 2023 . <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/88972/langston-hughes-101>.