Black Nativity
play
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use of Hughes’s poetry
- In Langston Hughes: Documenting African American culture and posthumous works
Black Nativity (1961; film 2013) is a gospel play that uses Hughes’s poetry, along with gospel standards and scriptural passages, to retell the story of the birth of Jesus. It was an international success, and performances of the work—often diverging substantially from the original—became a…
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