03646oam 22006014a 450 991015624690332120240505175415.00-8130-3870-70-8130-4324-7(CKB)3450000000003171(MH)012674697-4(SSID)ssj0000628414(PQKBManifestationID)12221149(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628414(PQKBWorkID)10712921(PQKB)11403884(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035278(MiAaPQ)EBC4773168(OCoLC)801845648(MdBmJHUP)muse22369(EXLCZ)99345000000000317120100614d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrLangston Hughes and American Lynching Culture /W. Jason Miller1st ed.Gainesville, [Florida] :University Press of Florida,2011.©20111 online resource (xiv, 168 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8130-3533-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-162) 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.W. Jason Miller investigates the nearly three dozen poems written by Langston 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. In this work, Miller initiates an important dialogue between America's neglected history of lynching and some of the world's most significant poems. He begins with Hughes's teenage years during the Red Summer of 1919, moves on to the Scottsboro case beginning in 1931, then continues through WWII, the McCarthy era, the Red Scare, his interrogation before HUAC in the 1950s, and at last to the civil rights movement that took root toward the end of Hughes's life. Key poems, including "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Christ in Alabama," and "Dream Deferred," revisit the height of Hughes's overt resistance and anger as he ardently wrote to keep this topic in the forefront of American consciousness. Miller then traces the poet's use of allusion in his later works and ultimately examines how Hughes used strategies learned from photography to negotiate censorship in the 1950s. This volume represents a crucial and long-overdue contribution to our understanding of the art and politics of Langston Hughes---a man who never knew of an America where the very real threat of lynching was absent from the cultural landscape.LynchingUnited StatesHistoryAfrican Americans in literatureLynching in literatureElectronic books. LynchingHistory.African Americans in literature.Lynching in literature.811/.5209Miller W. Jason1154223MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910156246903321Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture2872964UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress