Origins of the dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric / / W. Jason Miller
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| Autore: |
Miller W. Jason
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| Titolo: |
Origins of the dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric / / W. Jason Miller
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| 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8130-5071-5 |
| 0-8130-5518-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459749503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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