Africa/America: Fragmentation and Diaspora in the Work of Langston Hughes

Westover, Jeff

doi:10.1353/cal.2002.0174

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2002

DOI: 10.1353/cal.2002.0174

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Africa/America: Fragmentation and Diaspora in the Work of Langston Hughes

Jeff Westover¹

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“…The same point is foregrounded by the concept of "dual citizenship" (Gilroy; as cited inWestover, 2002Westover, , p. 1212, but with more emphasis on social factors.…”

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A Compound Stylistic Approach to the Racial Conflict in Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

Ali

2023

Journal of Sustainable Development in Social and Environmental

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The present study seeks to stylistically investigate Langston Hughes's dramatization of the racial conflict between black and white Americans in his best relevant poems. In a twofold self-defense, Hughes and his black American personae counteract the Whites' racial stereotypes through an affirmation of their race-pride that evolves from a deep self-acceptance of their own beauty and ugliness as equal, yet distinct, people within the American nation. The study explores the stylistic patterns employed in the poems to deliver this message. It attempts a compound approach of analysis, presupposing two levels of the conflict: (a) one related to black and white American personae on the enounced level of the poetic text world, and (b) the other pertaining to Hughes, as a black American poet and person, and his readers or critics on the coding level of reality. The proposed analysis examines the interrelationships, if any, between the two levels of the situational orientation, typical of such compound texts as Hughes's dramatic poems.

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“…The same point is foregrounded by the concept of "dual citizenship" (Gilroy; as cited inWestover, 2002Westover, , p. 1212, but with more emphasis on social factors.…”

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A Compound Stylistic Approach to the Racial Conflict in Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

Ali

2023

Journal of Sustainable Development in Social and Environmental

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“…De acordo com as análises de Jeff Westover (2002), na poesia de Hughes sublinha-se a forma como o sujeito vive a sua americanidade (Americaness) de uma forma fragmentada. Ao mesmo tempo em que reivindica uma identidade americana, demanda uma identidade africana, pela via da afrodescendência.…”

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Os vários cantos das Américas: reivindicação de voz na poesia de Langston Hughes e Lolly Aires

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Ketzer Umbach

2022

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A literatura enquanto um discurso que emerge do tecido social carrega consigo um índice representacional considerável da realidade da qual se erige. Dessa forma, a textualidade literária, como uma (re)construção constante de sentidos, semantiza fraturas históricas que assolam as sociedades. Esta é a ideia central que perseguimos neste artigo ao analisar as relações entre três poemas: “I hear America singing”, de Walt Whitman, “I, too”, de Langston Hughes, e “Eu também canto a América”, de Lolly Aires. Os dois primeiros são produções literárias estadunidenses e o terceiro, brasileiro; assim, no exercício analítico procuramos, na relação intertextual que se estabelece, observar a reivindicação de voz e de participação social na poesia de Langston Hughes e Lolly Aires. Estes acabam por representar as identidades negligenciadas no continente americano ao evidenciar a exclusão motivada por vetores de raça e gênero, principalmente. Dessa forma, nos aproximamos do comparativismo interamericano (FIGUEIREDO, 2005; BERND, 2011), a fim de aproximar as produções literárias no horizonte da crítica social que concretizam.

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Taken by the sea wind: Langston Hughes and the currents of Black identity

Murray

2022

Atlantic Studies

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Africa/America: Fragmentation and Diaspora in the Work of Langston Hughes

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

A Compound Stylistic Approach to the Racial Conflict in Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

A Compound Stylistic Approach to the Racial Conflict in Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

Os vários cantos das Américas: reivindicação de voz na poesia de Langston Hughes e Lolly Aires

Taken by the sea wind: Langston Hughes and the currents of Black identity

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