Langston Hughes and American lynching culture / W. Jason Miller.
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TextPublication details: Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 168 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
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- 9780813038704
- 0813038707
- 9780813043241
- 0813043247
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Political and social views
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Political activity
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- Lynching in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Lynching -- United States -- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American
- African Americans in literature
- Lynching
- Lynching in literature
- Political and social views
- Political participation
- United States
- Lynchage -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Noirs américains dans la littérature
- Lynchage dans la littérature
- 811.5209 23
- PS3515.U274 Z6843 2011
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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 Langston Hughes.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English.
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