Research Catalog

Title

Langston Hughes and American lynching culture [electronic resource] / W. Jason Miller.

Author

Miller, W. Jason.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xiv, 168 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Langston Hughes and American lynching culture (Online)

Alternative Title

Langston Hughes and American lynching culture (Online)

Subject

• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Criticism and interpretation
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Political and social views
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Political activity
• Lynching in literature
• African Americans in literature
• Lynching > United States > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-162) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2010023264

OCLC

ssj0000628414

Author

Miller, W. Jason.

Title

Langston Hughes and American lynching culture [electronic resource] / W. Jason Miller.

Imprint

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-162) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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