Origins of the Dream : Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miller, W. Jason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
King, Martin Luther > 1929-1968
Hughes, Langston > 1902-1967
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968.
Hughes, Langston, > 1902-1967.
Hughes, Langston, > 1902-1967 > Influence.
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Rhetorik
Rezeption
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Civil rights movements.
American poetry > African American authors.
African Americans.
African American poets.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Poetes noirs americains > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Histoire.
Poesie americaine > Auteurs noirs americains.
African American poets > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
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.

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