Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0065
Steven C. Tracy
This article is a comparative close reading of two poems, one from the nineteenth century by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the other a dramatic monologue from the twentieth century by Anne Spencer. The poems both deal with the abuse of patriarchal power in the story of Queen Vashti, contextualizing the story in both centuries, showing how, with masks firmly in place, women writers delivered powerful messages of protest to the male communities using an ancient story that speaks powerfully to their present as well as ours.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0008
E. Rutter
While scant critical attention has been paid to the thematic resonances between Langston Hughes and Claudia Rankine, they share a keen interest in using the power of the pen to expose and estrange white liberal hypocrisy. This article further establishes these resonances by placing Hughes’s short story “Slave on the Block,” from The Ways of White Folks (1934), in conversation with Rankine’s one-act play The White Card (2019). Reading Hughes and Rankine in tandem illuminates a decades-long concern with the role white patrons of Black art play in reifying racist narratives and contributing to, rather than dismantling, white hegemony. Utilizing what Tina Campt theorizes as a Black gaze, Hughes and Rankine, this article argues, encourage their white liberal audiences to take responsibility for their own patterns of exploitation and dehumanization within the world of Black art and culture and well beyond it.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0200
Angel C. Dye
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0164
Kayci Merritte
This article argues that “a dream deferred,” as conceived by Langston Hughes in his book-length poem Montage of a Dream Deferred, is not a phrase defining a single moment but is instead a concept of continuity defining the ongoing atmospheric condition of existing within American racism. A dream deferred is analyzed here as a pervasiveness that can be understood as being of the air. It is an aerosolized anti-Blackness, polluted air, an atmosphere that makes it difficult to breathe—Black breathlessness. The concept indicates that the relatively nuanced atmosphere of Hughes’s postwar Harlem is also the explicit atmosphere of the present with its outspoken attention on interconnected issues, including anti-Black terror and disproportionate Black birthing parent mortality and pandemic impact. A dream deferred persists as the surround, the atmosphere, is the air itself, and is of and within Black breath and breathlessness.
本文认为，兰斯顿·休斯(Langston Hughes)在其长篇诗作《被推迟的梦的蒙太奇》(Montage of a dream deferred)中构想的“被推迟的梦”不是一个定义单一时刻的短语，而是一个定义美国种族主义持续存在的氛围条件的连续性概念。一个被推迟的梦在这里被分析为一种可以被理解为空气的普遍存在。这是一种雾化的抗黑性，被污染的空气，一种使呼吸困难的气氛-黑呼吸困难。这一概念表明，休斯战后哈莱姆区相对微妙的氛围也是当前的明确氛围，它直言不讳地关注相互关联的问题，包括反黑人恐怖、不成比例的黑人生育父母死亡率和流行病的影响。一个被推迟的梦持续存在，因为环绕，大气，是空气本身，是属于黑色呼吸和呼吸困难的。
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