Langston Hughes’s most famous poem asks what happens to a dream deferred. But the Harlem Renaissance writer had already answered that question, it would seem, decades before, in his semi-autobiographical 1930 novel, “Not Without Laughter.” Hughes’s bildungsroman follows the early life of a poor Black family in Kansas through the eyes of Sandy, who is ab…
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