Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture
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Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture

  1. 185 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. The Red Summer of 1919: Finding Reassurance
  11. 2. The Scottsboro Case and World War II America: Poetic Anger
  12. 3. Negotiating Censorship in the 1950s: Lynching as Analogy
  13. 4. Poetry as Counternarrative: Retelling History
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index