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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Langston Hughes"”.
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"Ain't You Heard"?: The Jazz Poetry of Langston Hughes
… of 2007, I was reintroduced to the poetry of Langston Hughes, a poet typically associated with the Harlem Renaissance and known for his poetry drawn from African-American folk idioms, such as the blues and jazz; in fact, he is often credited with being one of the first - if not the first -jazz …
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The Feminine Representation of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes' novel Not Without Laughter works within the historically narrow framework of African American uplift ideology. Hughes implies Booker T. Washington's racial uplift ideology from Up From Slavery within Aunt Hager Williams. In addition, Hughes implies W.E.B. DuBois' racial uplift …
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Expressions of African American identity in the cantata “Simon Bore the Cross” by Margaret Bonds and Langston Hughes
… by the composer Margaret Bonds and the poet Langston Hughes, a work that has never been studied before. It includes background on Bonds and an in-depth look at the letters between Bonds and Hughes, a correspondence which spanned over three decades and which has never been examined in its …
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"Of things related": network assemblages in the longform poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Melvin Tolson, Langston Hughes and Louis Zukofsky
… Libretto for the Republic of Liberia (1953), Langston Hughes Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961), and Louis Zukofsky’s “A” (1978). It is my argument that these longform poems evidence a balanced tension between the particular and the whole. This balanced tension is created through a …
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LINES THAT BIND: DISABILITY’S PLACE IN THE MODERNIST WRITINGS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER, AMY LOWELL, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND EZRA POUND
… aesthetics of American modernist writers like Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Amy Lowell, and Ezra Pound at a time when eugenics' insistence on a superior and uniform humanity dominated social thought and how their writings complicate generalized conclusions espousing ablist tendencies in …
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HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS
… and adapted by poets such as McKay, Cullen, Hughes, and Brooks. The formal and social characteristics of sonnets by African-Americans function synergistically: the way that the octave and the sestet respond to each other in a single poem is also similar to the "call-and- response" movement of …
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Apport de la poésie noire à la première moitié du XXe siècle: Langston Hughes, Nicolás Guillén et Léopold Sédar Senghor
… oralidad africana negra en la poesía escrita de Langston Hughes, Nicolás Guillén y Léopold Sédar Senghor. Pero antes de hablar de la literatura oral negroafricana y de su influencia en la poesía escrita del medio siglo, recordamos algunas observaciones. La tradición oral negroafricana ha sido …
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El periodismo literario de Langston Hughes en España: estudio de la empatía narrativa en su corresponsalía de la Guerra Civil
En julio de 1937, Langston Hughes viaja a España como corresponsal para cubrir la guerra civil española. En un ejercicio de observación, comentario e interpretación, las crónicas del reconocido poeta afroamericano convertido en periodista literario aportan un retrato de una España contra la …
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“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” An African Centered Historical Study of the Selfethnic Liberatory Education Nature and Goals of the Poetry of Langston Hughes: the Impact on Adult Education
… education nature and goals of the poetry of Langston Hughes (from 1921 to 1933); and 2) to document the impact this poetry had on members of the African Diaspora. In addition, the goal of this research was to expand the historical knowledge base of the adult education field, so that it is …
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… John Dos Passos, Alan Lomax, Sidney Bechet, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and August Wilson, I explore how literature across a number of genres and modes extended formal techniques in response to the advent of the phonograph, tape, and LPs. I contend that …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
… migration: the African Diaspora. The journeys of Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Willard Motley, and Elizabeth Catlett to Mexico illustrate an intricate web of rhizomatic connections spanning the Black Atlantic, the Caribbean Ocean, the Mississippi River and the Rio Grande. This dissertation …
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Engaging aesthetics: American poetry and politics, 1925-1950
… comprise. The poets I discuss--Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Muriel Rukeyser--represent a range of attitudes toward poetry, politics, and the relationship between the two. My approach addresses a set of broad theoretical issues: the relationship between the categories of the …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
… Jahan Ramazani calls the “lynching elegy” of Langston Hughes’ blues elegy? Is it the persisting protest aesthetic of the post-Hughes blues elegy, the anti-consolatory martyr poem of the Black Arts Movement? Is it entangled in the protest poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Audre Lorde, whose …
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"The Bellows / of Experience": The Modernist Love Poem and Its Legacy
… the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and Langston Hughes to elucidate love poetry in its modernist form. The project establishes the place innovative modernist love poetry holds in literary history, and casts forward with two chapters, one on Anne Sexton and Robert Creeley, and another on …
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The Poet's Place: Individuality and Collectivity in Modern American Poetry, 1910-1940
… modern American poets such as H.D., T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and others created new modes of lyricism, ones based not on privacy and the celebration of an individual self but on community, collectivity, and chorality. In examining the development of these new modes of lyricism, the …
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The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism
… Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Nathanael West, and Langston Hughes invented ways of representing individuals not by stable inner qualities but by their fascinating--and, often, gendered and racialized--blankness. For these writers, this sense of personality was not only an important theme and formal …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… literary figures such as John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Malcolm Muggeridge, Paul Robeson, John Steinbeck, E.E. Cummings, Mike Gold, Elmer Rice, Lillian Hellman, Theodore Dreiser, Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Waldo Frank, Josephine Herbst, …
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