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LAWRENCE -- Authors and scholars appearing at the Langston Hughes symposium, "Let America Be America Again," Feb. 7 to 10 at the University of Kansas, will sign their works during the event. The symposium and related celebrations mark the 100th anniversary of American poet Langston Hughes' birth.
Book signings will take place in the Jayhawk Room, Level 5 of the Kansas Union on the KU campus. A schedule of the book signings, with authors and representative titles, follows. A wide selection of their other titles will be on display or for sale at the symposium and at the Oread Bookshop in the Kansas Union.
11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8
• Olga Barrios, "Contemporary Literature in the African Diaspora"
• Fahamisha Patricia Brown, "Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture"
• Trudier Harris-Lopez, "Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature"
• Kevin Powell, "Step into a World"
• Steven Tracy, "Langston Hughes and the Blues"
2:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8
• Emily Bernard, "Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten"
• Genevieve Fabre, "Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance"
• Hazel Rowley, "Richard Wright: The Life and Times"
• Amritjit Singh, "Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity and Literature"
• Cary Wintz, "Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance"
10:15 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 9
• Roy DeCarava, "The Sound I Saw"
• Christopher De Santis, "Fight for Freedom and Related Writings, Vol. 10, Collected Works of Langston Hughes"
• Dolan Hubbard, "The Novels: Not without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory, Vol. 4, Collected Works of Langston Hughes"
• Joseph McLaren, "Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943"
• James Stevens, "Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours"
3:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9
• Tom Averill, "Secrets of the Tsil Cafe"
• Everett Hoagland, "Here: New and Selected Poems"
• Tony Medina, "Love to Langston"
• Hans Ostrom, "A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia"
• Eugene Redmond, "Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems"
Book signings by symposium presenters at other Lawrence locations:
10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1
• Alice Walker, "The Color Purple"
The Raven Bookstore, 8 E. Seventh St.
6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7
• Willie Perdomo, "Visiting Langston"
Children's Book Shop, 937 Massachusetts
7-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9
• Paule Marshall, "The Fisher King" and "Brown Girl, Brownstones"
The Raven Bookstore, 8 E. Seventh St.
For more information on these authors, please visit the Langston Hughes symposium Web site, www.kuce.org/hughes.
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