Identity and Difference: Race, Class, Nation, and Poetics in Langston Huyghes

• 영문명: Identity and Difference: Race, Class, Nation, and Poetics in Langston Huyghes
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Kyunghoon Jung
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학(TAEGU REVIEW) 제68호, 37~51쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2003.10.01

영문 초록

Langston Hughes positions himself as an Afro-American poet for the marginalized in the United States and deploys the poetic discourse which redefines racial, cultural, class, and national boundaries and identities. Hughes, one of whose main themes is about the black identity, critiques black poets who identify themselves with white "American standardizations." He believes that any great art of black can be achieved not by "running away" from his race but by recognizing "the beauty of his own people" and his racial/cultural difference, and that there will be no black/white equality unless. their racial/cultural difference is accepted as equally valuable. One of the ways that Hughes recognizes and celebrates his racial/cultural difference and beauty is to elaborate on and incorporate black music such as blues Identity and Difference into his poetry, which often result in changes in themes and structures. Most of Hughes's blue poems are a double-accented, double-styled hybrid construction. Hughes uses not only black's but white's cultural traditions and his poetry is in dynamic tension between the two different traditions. For Hughes, the identity of the nation of America is as culturally/racially polyphonic as that of his blues poem. He envisions that the United States should be the multicultural multiracial nation for the oppressed, regardless of their racial cultural differences.

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