A Compound Stylistic Approach to the Racial Conflict in Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
Journal Title: Journal of Sustainable Development in Social and Environmental Sciences - Year 2023, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The present study seeks to stylistically investigate Langston Hughesâs dramatization of the racial conflict between black and white Americans in his best relevant poems. In a twofold selfâdefense, Hughes and his black American personae counteract the Whitesâ racial stereotypes through an affirmation of their raceâpride that evolves from a deep selfâacceptance 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 Hughesâs dramatic poems.
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Mursi Ali,
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- DOI 10.21608/jsdses.2023.183943.1012
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