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Origins of the dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric /
Since Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech, some scholars have privately suspected that King's 'dream' was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry. Drawing on archival materials, including notes, correspondence, and marginalia, W. Jason Miller provides a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: giving new validity to old forms
- "Mother to son": the rise, removal, and return of Hughes
- Black and red: accusations of subversiveness
- King and poetry: quotations, revisions, and unsolicited poems
- "Dream deferred": King's use of Hughes's most popular poem
- "Poem for a man": King's unusual request
- "Youth": Hughes's poem and King's chiasmus
- "I dream a world": rewriting Hughes's signature poem
- "I have a dream": King speaks in Rocky Mount
- "The Psalm of brotherhood": King at Detroit's march for jobs
- The march on Washington: veiling Hughes's poetry
- Conclusion: extending the dream.