LEADER 03646oam 22006014a 450 001 9910156246903321 005 20240505175415.0 010 $a0-8130-3870-7 010 $a0-8130-4324-7 035 $a(CKB)3450000000003171 035 $a(MH)012674697-4 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000628414 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12221149 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628414 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10712921 035 $a(PQKB)11403884 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035278 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4773168 035 $a(OCoLC)801845648 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22369 035 $a(EXLCZ)993450000000003171 100 $a20100614d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLangston Hughes and American Lynching Culture /$fW. Jason Miller 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aGainesville, [Florida] :$cUniversity Press of Florida,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 168 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8130-3533-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [157]-162) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aW. 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. 606 $aLynching$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aLynching in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLynching$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aLynching in literature. 676 $a811/.5209 700 $aMiller$b W. Jason$01154223 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156246903321 996 $aLangston Hughes and American Lynching Culture$92872964 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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