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Origins of the dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric / / W. Jason Miller



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Autore: Miller W. Jason Visualizza persona
Titolo: Origins of the dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric / / W. Jason Miller Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
Disciplina: 818/.5209
Soggetto topico: American poetry - African American authors
African Americans - History
Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: giving new validity to old forms -- "Mother to son": the rise, removal, and return of Hughes -- Black and red: accusations of subversiveness -- King and poetry: quotations, revisions, and unsolicited poems -- "Dream deferred": King's use of Hughes's most popular poem -- "Poem for a man": King's unusual request -- "Youth": Hughes's poem and King's chiasmus -- "I dream a world": rewriting Hughes's signature poem -- "I have a dream": King speaks in Rocky Mount -- "The Psalm of brotherhood": King at Detroit's march for jobs -- The march on Washington: veiling Hughes's poetry -- Conclusion: extending the dream.
Sommario/riassunto: Since Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, some scholars have privately suspected that King's "dream" was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry. Drawing on archival materials, including notes, correspondence, and marginalia, W. Jason Miller provides a completely original and compelling argument that Hughes's influence on King's rhetoric was, in fact, evident in more than just the one famous speech. King's staff had been wiretapped by J. Edgar Hoover and suffered accusations of communist influence, so quoting or naming the leader of the Harlem Renaissance-who had his own reputati
Titolo autorizzato: Origins of the dream  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8130-5071-5
0-8130-5518-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787233103321
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