{"title":"Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson","authors":"E. West","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29877,"journal":{"name":"Langston Hughes Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47330185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dark, and Dear, and Passionate Desire: Before and After the Feast at Shushan","authors":"Steven C. Tracy","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0065","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article is a comparative close reading of two poems, one from the nineteenth century by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the other a dramatic monologue from the twentieth century by Anne Spencer. The poems both deal with the abuse of patriarchal power in the story of Queen Vashti, contextualizing the story in both centuries, showing how, with masks firmly in place, women writers delivered powerful messages of protest to the male communities using an ancient story that speaks powerfully to their present as well as ours.","PeriodicalId":29877,"journal":{"name":"Langston Hughes Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44030327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Gazes and White Liberals in Langston Hughes’s “Slave on the Block” and Claudia Rankine’s The White Card","authors":"E. Rutter","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.29.1.0008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While scant critical attention has been paid to the thematic resonances between Langston Hughes and Claudia Rankine, they share a keen interest in using the power of the pen to expose and estrange white liberal hypocrisy. This article further establishes these resonances by placing Hughes’s short story “Slave on the Block,” from The Ways of White Folks (1934), in conversation with Rankine’s one-act play The White Card (2019). Reading Hughes and Rankine in tandem illuminates a decades-long concern with the role white patrons of Black art play in reifying racist narratives and contributing to, rather than dismantling, white hegemony. Utilizing what Tina Campt theorizes as a Black gaze, Hughes and Rankine, this article argues, encourage their white liberal audiences to take responsibility for their own patterns of exploitation and dehumanization within the world of Black art and culture and well beyond it.","PeriodicalId":29877,"journal":{"name":"Langston Hughes Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49645579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ursa’s Blues (after Gayl Jones & Langston Hughes)","authors":"Angel C. Dye","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0200","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29877,"journal":{"name":"Langston Hughes Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48000016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atmospheric Black Breathlessness, A Dream Deferred","authors":"Kayci Merritte","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0164","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article argues that “a dream deferred,” as conceived by Langston Hughes in his book-length poem Montage of a Dream Deferred, is not a phrase defining a single moment but is instead a concept of continuity defining the ongoing atmospheric condition of existing within American racism. A dream deferred is analyzed here as a pervasiveness that can be understood as being of the air. It is an aerosolized anti-Blackness, polluted air, an atmosphere that makes it difficult to breathe—Black breathlessness. The concept indicates that the relatively nuanced atmosphere of Hughes’s postwar Harlem is also the explicit atmosphere of the present with its outspoken attention on interconnected issues, including anti-Black terror and disproportionate Black birthing parent mortality and pandemic impact. A dream deferred persists as the surround, the atmosphere, is the air itself, and is of and within Black breath and breathlessness.","PeriodicalId":29877,"journal":{"name":"Langston Hughes Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46961182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}