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A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "Black Nativity", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "Black Nativity" - Gale
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Black Nativity
Langston Hughes
1961
Introduction
In Black Nativity, first performed in 1961, Langston Hughes retells the Gospel story of the birth of Jesus using a collection of traditional black spirituals. He thus gives a new artistic context to black tradition. His goal in this was political, to proclaim the identity of the black community in a world still, in the 1960s, bent on oppressing it. Black Nativity has become the most popular of Hughes's stage works. Performances of it in theaters and churches can be seen in most large American cities every Christmas, and it is the subject of a Hollywood film.
Author Biography
James Langston Hughes usually stated that he was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, but also said that he was not certain of the date. The white-dominated American culture of the era did not issue a birth certificate for him, a prologue to the segregation, discrimination, and marginalization that no black American of his generation could escape. Reflecting another inescapable fact of the history of oppression of blacks in America, both of Hughes's paternal great-grandfathers were white slave owners. Caroline Mercer, Hughes's mother, came from an aristocratic stratum of the African American community. Her uncle, John Mercer Langston, had been a congressman during Reconstruction, an American diplomat, and eventually the president of Virginia State University. But Caroline ran away from home dreaming of a career on Broadway. This did not materialize, and she eventually married James Hughes, a Pullman porter, a prestigious job in the generally poor black community. Hughes's mother eventually worked as a schoolteacher, so the family should have had a comfortable middle-class life. But Hughes's father could not stand the daily wounds to his pride that life in the United States meant for a black man, so he moved to Mexico City. Caroline did not follow, and Hughes's parents were separated by the time he was six years old.
Growing up in Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio, Hughes did not face the extreme discrimination experienced by blacks living in the South. He attended integrated schools, for example, but was praised by his classmates for his
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