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Laughing to Keep from Crying, his first collection of short fiction in nearly two decades, highlights the finest aspects of his work: his "simple, direct, style, the thirst for social criticism, the balance between satire and comedy, the basic, easily recognizable plot line, and the ability to create 'everyman' characters" (Ostram, Langston Hughes). Buy a cheap copy of Laughing to Keep from Crying book by Langston Hughes. Reprinted by special arrangement--T.p. verso. Free Shipping on all orders over $Cited by: 2. Find Laughing To Keep From Crying by Hughes, Langston at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.

Still Laughing to Keep from Crying: Black Humor the result is the common adage that Blacks laughed to keep from crying, giving fuel to Langston Hughes's admonition that laughter is the best medicine. Black humor sustained Africans in America from the earliest use of parody, to animal tales, the dozens, in proverbs, to the urban narratives. FIRST EDITION OF LANGSTON HUGHES' LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM CRYING, INSCRIBED BY HIM IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION HUGHES, Langston. Laughing to Keep from Crying. New York: Henry Holt, (). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket. HUGHES, Langston. Laughing to Keep from Crying. New York: Henry Holt, (). Sold. First edition. Fine in a slightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper with modest tanning on the spine. Nicely Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, using most of the front fly: "Especially for Bill -- in gratitude and regard -- Sincerely, Langston. New.

Laughing to Keep from Crying. Author: Langston Hughes; Publisher: Unknown; Release Date: ; ISBN: UCSC; GET THIS BOOK Laughing to Keep from Crying. A novel about Black life. Laughing to Keep from Crying is the second collection of short fiction by Hughes and highlights race relations through twenty-four short stories spanning 30 years. "In these twenty-odd stories, almost all of them concerned with minority groups, there is little special pleading, as such, and no attempt to show only the best in the people about whom Hughes is writing. Laughing to Keep from Crying, his first collection of short fiction in nearly two decades, highlights the finest aspects of his work: his "simple, direct, style, the thirst for social criticism, the balance between satire and comedy, the basic, easily recognizable plot line, and the ability to create 'everyman' characters" (Ostram, Langston Hughes).