Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture /
Langston Hughes never knew of an America where lynching was absent from the cultural landscape. This study of the centrality of these heinous acts to Hughes' artistic development aesthetics, and activism represents a significant contribution to our understanding of the art and politics of Langs...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville, Fla. :
University Press of Florida,
2011.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The red summer of 1919: finding reassurance
- The Scottsboro case and World War II America: poetic anger
- Negotiating censorship in the 1950s: lynching as analogy
- Poetry as counternarrative: retelling history.