Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0178
Rebecca Pawel
Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred observes Harlem’s griefs and difficulties, but unlike contemporary work about the neighborhood by other authors, his poetry resists the suburban impulse that swept the United States after World War II. “No Room for Fear” reads the Montage as a response to a postwar anti-urbanism that portrayed high-density cities as sites of physical and moral contagion, and exalted suburban living as a literal form of “social distance” that separated individuals by race and nuclear family of origin in the supposed interests of health and wellbeing. The article argues that Montage celebrates Harlem’s diversity as a good made possible only by the crowded conditions writers of social protest fiction deplored. It concludes by considering how Hughes’s defense of urbanism remains relevant seventy years later, when a new version of the suburban impulse trumpets the internet instead of the automobile as an instrument to “free” New Yorkers from dangerous proximity to people different from themselves.
兰斯顿·休斯(Langston Hughes)的《被推迟的梦的蒙太奇》(Montage of a Dream Deferred)观察了哈莱姆的悲伤和困难，但与其他作家关于这个社区的当代作品不同，他的诗歌抵制了二战后席卷美国的郊区冲动。《无所畏惧》(No Room for Fear)将蒙太奇解读为对战后反城市主义的回应，这种反城市主义将高密度的城市描绘成身体和道德传染病的场所，并将郊区生活视为一种“社会距离”的字面形式，以种族和核心家庭的名义将个人分开，以实现所谓的健康和福祉。这篇文章认为，蒙太奇颂扬哈莱姆的多样性，认为它是一种美好的东西，只有在社会抗议小说作家哀叹的拥挤条件下才有可能实现。最后考虑到休斯对城市主义的辩护在七十年后仍然具有现实意义，当郊区冲动的新版本鼓吹互联网而不是汽车是将纽约人从与自己不同的人的危险接近中“解放”出来的工具时。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0207
Synthia Saint James
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0124
Lashawn Harris
On December 9, 1984, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer fatally shot New York mother of three Sharon Walker. Police violence not only killed Walker: The bullet lodged in her body harmed all those who loved her, particularly her three teenage children. Broadening conversations on police violence, this article examines the diverse ways in which police violence and parental loss impact the lives of a less familiar community of police brutality survivors: children and teenagers. It employs the 1984 police murder of Sharon Walker and her children’s lives as a window into what anthropologist Christen Smith referred to as the “lingering, deathly aftereffects of police terror on the bodies of the living in the aftermath of police killings” (Smith, “Lingering Trauma” 370).
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0109
T. Bolden
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0154
K. Gilyard
“Langston Hughes and Dream Deferral” examines the protests over George Floyd’s murder through the lens of Langston Hughes’s famous motif of dream deferral. Keith Gilyard argues that Hughes’s primary concern as a poet was illuminating the process by which black people’s dreams have been deferred throughout American history. However, much of the essay focuses on conflicting viewpoints on black resistance in the post-civil rights era. Gilyard shows how Hughes speaks to contemporary issues, interweaving between the poet’s commentaries on politics and the controversies over the use of violence during the protests.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-13DOI: 10.5325/langhughrevi.26.1.0107
Collins
The demand that philosophy be relevant is not new. The book under review, without escaping this outcome, displays constant tension between supporting, on the one hand, a practical agenda with a rich display of deeply philosophic works, and on the other hand demonstrating useful application of those same texts, without compromising their complexity. Despite suggestive links to Nancy, Derrida, and Rancière, not enough attention is paid to the subtlety of deconstruction, and the result is a tenuous mixture of theory oriented toward the fascinating fields of art, psychotherapy, and politics. Collins begins by building her case from Rancière’s notion of ‘partage du sensible’, or, distribution of the sensible, and argues for, not necessarily the curative, but palliative effects of art therapy, stating in effect that ‘artwork makes political sense’ (1). Her book is divided into two parts. In the first, Collins seeks to demonstrate the affectivity of art objects and their utility toward healing individuals in a manner that, in bypassing the clinic, also challenges it. Each mode of the triadic structure of aesthetic experience – that is, artwork as aesthetic object, the spectator and their aesthetic encounter, and the relation conjoining artist and their creative art process – sustains the possibility for stimulating a transformative therapeutic. The hope is to cultivate a sense of, and provide a theoretical basis for an art practice that could exist independent of clinical intervention, without substituting it absolutely. Once having established support for an agency of transformative art practice, Collins in the second part works to expand this concept into a critical method of thinking that could institute socio-political change.
要求哲学具有相关性并不是什么新鲜事。正在审查的这本书，在不回避这一结果的情况下，在一方面支持一个富有哲理的作品的实践议程，另一方面在不影响其复杂性的情况下展示这些文本的有用应用之间，显示出持续的紧张关系。尽管与Nancy、Derrida和Rancière有着暗示性的联系，但人们对解构的微妙之处没有给予足够的关注，其结果是对艺术、心理治疗和政治等迷人领域的理论进行了微妙的混合。柯林斯首先从Rancière的“理智的部分”（partage du sensible）或“理智的分配”的概念出发，并主张艺术疗法不一定具有治疗效果，而是具有缓和效果，实际上指出“艺术具有政治意义”（1）。她的书分为两部分。在第一篇文章中，柯林斯试图以一种绕过诊所的方式来展示艺术对象的情感及其对治愈个体的效用。审美体验的三元结构的每一种模式——即艺术作为审美对象、观众和他们的审美遭遇，以及艺术家和他们的创作艺术过程之间的联系——维持了激发变革性治疗的可能性。希望培养一种独立于临床干预而存在的艺术实践的意识，并为其提供理论基础，而不是绝对取代它。柯林斯在第二部分中，一旦建立了对变革性艺术实践机构的支持，就致力于将这一概念扩展为一种批判性的思维方法，从而引发社会政治变革。
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