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• 영문명: Langston Hughes's Queer Poetics - focused on the analysis of queer speakers in Langston Hughes's poetry
• 발행기관: 영미어문학회
• 저자명: 변세희(Byun Se Hee)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학연구』영미어문학연구 제30집 1호, 77~91쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.08.30

영문 초록

Langston Hughes remained pretty private about his personal life, but it has been agreed by many academics and biographers that Hughes was homosexual and included gay codes into many of his poems. As a gay man, Hughes lived that secret life silently in the confines of a very narrow, but well-constructed closet--one that still shelters him today. However, focusing on such poems as "Tell me", "Star Seeker", "Dream Keeper", we can easily identify homoeroticism and other gay markings. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an American academic scholar in the fields of queer theory. In her book Epistemology of the Closet, she sees the closet for homosexuals as "defining structure for gay oppression in [the 20th] century". Also she argues that the "closet" and "coming out" as tools to investigate these basic binaries. The "closet" is an epistemological space where knowledge is either forcibly suppressed from outside or willfully withheld from within. This paper aims to analyze queer speakers in Langston Hughes's poetry based on the definition and function of closet which Sedgwick suggested in her book.

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키워드

Langston Hughes Harlem Renaissance Queer Theory Eve Sedgwick Closet