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Origins of the dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric /

"For years, some scholars have privately suspected Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry, and the link between the two was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King's orations. In Origins of the Dream, W....

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Main Authors: Miller, W. Jason
Published: University Press of Florida,
Publisher Address: Gainesville, FL :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Hughes, Langston, > 1902-1967 > Influence
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968
Hughes, Langston, > 1902-1967
King, Martin Luther, > 1929-1968
1900-1999
American poetry > African American authors
African Americans > History
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century
African American poets > 20th century
African American poets
African Americans
Civil rights movements
Influence Literary, artistic, etc
Rezeption
Rhetorik
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
United States
History
Summary: "For years, some scholars have privately suspected Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry, and the link between the two was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King's orations. In Origins of the Dream, W. Jason Miller lifts that veil to demonstrate how Hughes's revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in King's voice, and that the influence can be found in more than just the one famous speech. Miller contends that by employing Hughes's metaphors in his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to sile
Carrier Form: ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index.
ISBN: 9780813060446
0813060443
Index Number: PS3515
CLC: D771.29
I712.072
Call Number: I712.072/M652
Contents: Introduction: Giving new validity to old forms -- "Mother to son": the rise, removal, and return of Hughes -- Black and red: accusations of subversiveness -- King and poetry: quotations, revisions, and unsolicited poems -- "Dream deferred": King's use of Hughes's most popular poem -- "Poem for a man": King's unusual request -- "Youth": Hughes's poem and King's chiasmus -- "I dream a world": rewriting Hughes's signature poem -- "I have a dream": King speaks in Rocky Mount -- "The Psalm of brotherhood": King at Detroit's march for jobs -- The march on Washington: veiling Hughes's poetry -- Con

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