“Let us look at the immediate background of this young poet”: Langston Hughes and the Sociological Critique of Taste

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/afa.2023.a903596

Louisa Olufsen Layne

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Abstract:Langston Hughes’s classic essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” is commonly read as a defense of Black racial pride. I argue that it simultaneously performs a subtle but radical sociological critique of the Kantian paradigm of disinterested taste. “The Negro Artist and Racial Mountain” should therefore be read as a proto-sociology of literature that highlights the blind spot in regard to race often found in Bourdieusian frameworks. Hughes’s work can also provide the sociology of literature today with alternative models for thinking about the entanglement of taste, class, and power, and for conceptualizing aesthetic autonomy.

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“让我们看看这位年轻诗人的直接背景”:兰斯顿·休斯和《品味的社会学批判

摘要:兰斯顿·休斯的经典散文《黑人艺术家与种族大山》通常被解读为对黑人种族自豪感的辩护。我认为，它同时对康德的无私品味范式进行了微妙而激进的社会学批判。因此，《黑人艺术家和种族大山》应该被解读为文学社会学的原型，它突出了布尔迪厄主义框架中经常发现的种族盲点。休斯的作品也为今天的文学社会学提供了另一种思考品味、阶级和权力纠缠的模式，并为审美自主性的概念化提供了另一种模式。

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期刊介绍： As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.