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Fine Clothes to the Jew is a 1927 poetry collection by Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf. Because it departed from sentimental depictions of African-American culture, the collection was widely criticized, especially in the Black press, when it was published. Publication and response
Gather up yo' fine clothes An' sell 'em to de Jew. Jew takes yo' fine clothes, Gives you a dollar an' a half. Jew takes yo' fine clothes, Gives you a dollar an' a half. Go to de bootleg's, Git some gin to make you laugh. If I was a mule I'd Git me a waggon to haul. If I was a mule I'd Git a waggon to haul. I'm so low-down I Ain't even got a ...
In fact, the title Fine Clothes to the Jew, which was misunderstood and disliked by many people, was derived from the Harlemites Hughes saw pawning their own clothing; most of the pawn shops and other stores in Harlem at that time were owned by Jewish people. Lindsay Patterson, a novelist who served as Hughes’s assistant, believed that Hughes was.
In Hughes’s second book, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), he turned to the blues for a poetic form derived from and answering to the desires, needs, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Black working class. Read More.
Fine Clothes to the Jew appeared almost ten years after Hughes first began to write poetry. While his work in Lincoln, Illinois (where by his own account he wrote his first poem, in 1916), is lost, almost all of his poems written in high school in Cleveland and thereafter are available to scholars. They may be found in the Central High
The four hard-luck poems in this suite come from Hughes’s second book, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), which the black press criticized for his use of dialect and focus on lower class culture.
18 de may. de 2024 · Langston Hughes. In full: James Mercer Langston Hughes. Born: February 1, 1902?, Joplin, Missouri, U.S. Died: May 22, 1967, New York, New York (aged 65) Notable Works: “Dream Variation” “Fine Clothes to the Jew” “Harlem” “Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond” “Mule Bone” “Not Without Laughter”
