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- Title
"The <strike>Philadelphia</strike> Harlem Story": Langston Hughes's Screwy Play "Little Ham."
- Authors
Emery, Sharyn
- Abstract
Langston Hughes’s 1935 play "Little Ham" was a genre-bending moment, influenced by screwball comedies on the 1930s movie screen and by Hughes's own love of African-American vernacular culture. By using this lens to examine the play, a rich picture of the Harlem Renaissance emerges, highlighting the difficult task of representation and engagement with cultural forms at a time when the spectre of minstrelsy still haunted the African-American stage. Hughes's project with "Little Ham" was, at once, ludic and critical, creating a classic comedy that deserves a closer look.
- Subjects
LITTLE Ham (Theatrical production); HUGHES, Langston, 1902-1967; THEATER; HARLEM Renaissance; SCREWBALL comedy films; AFRICAN Americans; HARLEM Renaissance (Literary period)
- Publication
Modern Drama, 2012, Vol 55, Issue 3, p373
- ISSN
0026-7694
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3138/md.55.3.373