Langston Hughes And American Lynching Culture

Author : W. Jason Miller
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813043247
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture written by W. Jason Miller and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2011-01-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langston Hughes never knew of an America where lynching was absent from the cultural landscape. Jason Miller investigates the nearly three dozen poems written by Hughes on the subject of lynching to explore its varying effects on survivors, victims, and accomplices as they resisted, accepted, and executed this brutal form of sadistic torture. Starting from Hughes's life as a teenager during the Red Summer of 1919 and moving through the civil rights movement that took place toward the end of Hughes's life, Miller initiates an important dialogue between America's neglected history of lynching and some of the world’s most significant poems. This extended study of the centrality of these heinous acts to Hughes's artistic development, aesthetics, and activism represents a significant and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of the art and politics of Langston Hughes.

Author : W. Jason Miller
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142555
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Langston Hughes written by W. Jason Miller and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first black author in America to make his living exclusively by writing, Langston Hughes inspired a generation of writers and activists. One of the pioneers of jazz poetry, Hughes led the Harlem Renaissance, while Martin Luther King, Jr., invoked Hughes’s signature metaphor of dreaming in his speeches. In this new biography, W. Jason Miller illuminates Hughes’s status as an international literary figure through a compelling look at the relationship between his extraordinary life and his canonical works. Drawing on unpublished letters and manuscripts, Miller addresses Hughes’s often ignored contributions to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, as well as his complex and well-guarded sexuality, and repositions him as a writer rather than merely the most beloved African American poet of the twentieth century.

Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737769807
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race in The Poetry of Langston Hughes written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative edition explores the poetry of Langston Hughes through the lens of race. Coverage includes an examination of Hughes's life and influences; a look at key ideas related to race in Hughes's poetry, including the influence of African-American music, the use of poetry to address racial problems, and the politics of Hughes's anti-lynching poems; and contemporary perspectives on race, such as the decline of civil rights reform and the role of hip-hop in shaping black music.

Author : W. Jason Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813062006
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Dream written by W. Jason Miller and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Majestic. Grounded in astute interpretations of how speech acts function in history, this book is an exemplary model for future inquiries about the confluence of thought, poetry, and social action."--Jerry Ward Jr., coeditor of The Cambridge History of African American Literature "A vade mecum for those interested in the cultural ingredients, the political values, and the artistic sensibilities that united Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King Jr. in spirit, thought, and outlook. Masterfully conceived, meticulously researched, and gracefully written, this book breaks new ground."--Lewis V. Baldwin, author of There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. "Archival material is spotlighted in Miller's exploration of the ways Martin Luther King Jr. enlarged the appeal of his rhetoric by using poetry in his speeches. Readers will emerge with a greater appreciation of both King and Langston Hughes."--Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, editor of The Later Simple Stories (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 8) "Miller's study provides an original, engaging and provocative thesis that explores the hitherto unexplored links between two twentieth century African American icons."--John A. Kirk, editor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates For years, some scholars have privately suspected Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry, and the link between the two was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King's orations. In Origins of the Dream, W. Jason Miller lifts that veil to demonstrate how Hughes's revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in King's voice, and that the influence can be found in more than just the one famous speech. Miller contends that by employing Hughes's metaphors in his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to silence the poet's subversive voice. He argues that by using allusion rather than quotation, King avoided intensifying the threats and accusations against him, while allowing the nation to unconsciously embrace the incendiary ideas behind Hughes's poetry.

Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737770635
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race in The Poetry of Langston Hughes written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative edition explores the poetry of Langston Hughes through the lens of race. Coverage includes an examination of Hughes's life and influences; a look at key ideas related to race in Hughes's poetry, including the influence of African-American music, the use of poetry to address racial problems, and the politics of Hughes's anti-lynching poems; and contemporary perspectives on race, such as the decline of civil rights reform and the role of hip-hop in shaping black music.

Author : William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro written by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Gale Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1535867582
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Langston Hughes’s “Harlem” written by Langston Hughes and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynn M. Houston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440842558
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Geography written by Lynn M. Houston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference investigates the role of landscape in popular works and in doing so explores the time in which they were written. Literary Geography: An Encyclopedia of Real and Imagined Settings is an authoritative guide for students, teachers, and avid readers who seek to understand the importance of setting in interpreting works of literature, including poetry. By examining how authors and poets shaped their literary landscapes in such works as The Great Gatsby and Nineteen Eighty-Four, readers will discover historical, political, and cultural context hidden within the words of their favorite reads. The alphabetically arranged entries provide easy access to analysis of some of the most well-known and frequently assigned pieces of literature and poetry. Entries begin with a brief introduction to the featured piece of literature and then answer the questions: "How is literary landscape used to shape the story?"; "How is the literary landscape imbued with the geographical, political, cultural, and historical context of the author's contemporary world, whether purposeful or not?" Pop-up boxes provide quotes about literary landscapes throughout the book, and an appendix takes a brief look at the places writers congregated and that inspired them. A comprehensive scholarly bibliography of secondary sources pertaining to mapping, physical and cultural geography, ecocriticism, and the role of nature in literature rounds out the work.

Author : Emily Lutenski
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700635602
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West of Harlem written by Emily Lutenski and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance—Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among others—are associated with, well . . . Harlem. But the story of these New York writers unexpectedly extends to the American West. Hughes, for instance, grew up in Kansas, Thurman in Utah, and Bontemps in Los Angeles. Toomer traveled often to New Mexico. Indeed, as West of Harlem reveals, the West played a significant role in the lives and work of many of the artists who created the signal urban African American cultural movement of the twentieth century. Uncovering the forgotten histories of these major American literary figures, the book gives us a deeper appreciation of that movement, and of the cultures it reflected and inspired. These recovered experiences and literatures paint a new picture of the American West, one that better accounts for the disparate African American populations that dotted its landscape and shaped the multiethnic literatures and cultures of the borderlands. Tapping literary, biographical, historical, and visual sources, Emily Lutenski tells the New Negro movement's western story. Hughes's move to Mexico opens a window on African American transnational experiences. Thurman's engagement with Salt Lake City offers an unexpected perspective on African American sexual politics. Arna Bontemps's Los Angeles, constructed in conjunction with Louisiana, provides a new vision of the Spanish borderlands. Lesser-known writer Anita Scott Coleman imagines black Western autonomy through domesticity. The experience of others—like Toomer, invited to socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan's circle of artists in Taos—present a more pluralistic view of the West. It was this place, with its transnational and multiracial mix of Native Americans, Latina/os, Anglos, and African Americans, which buttressed Toomer's idea of a "new American race." Turning the lens elsewhere, Lutenski also explores how Latina/o, Asian American, and Native American western writers understood and represented African Americans in the early twentieth-century borderlands. The result is a new, unusually nuanced and unexpectedly complex view of key figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the borderlands cultures that influenced their art in surprising and important ways.

Author : Yoshinobu Hakutani
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666909084
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lynching in American Literature and Journalism written by Yoshinobu Hakutani and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-04-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of writing about lynching as an American tragedy and the ugliest element of national character. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 European Americans. More than 73 percent of the lynchings in the Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. The Lynchings increased dramatically in the aftermath of the Reconstruction, after slavery had been abolished and free men gained the right to vote. The peak of lynching occurred in 1882, after Southern white Democrats had regained control of the state legislators. This book is a collection of historical and critical discussions of lynching in America that reflects the shameful, unmoral policies, and explores the topic of lynching within American history, literature, and journalism.