Langston Hughes and American lynching culture /
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 impo...
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.