{"title":"“No Room for Fear”: Langston Hughes’s Defense of Urbanism","authors":"Rebecca Pawel","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0178","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred observes Harlem’s griefs and difficulties, but unlike contemporary work about the neighborhood by other authors, his poetry resists the suburban impulse that swept the United States after World War II. “No Room for Fear” reads the Montage as a response to a postwar anti-urbanism that portrayed high-density cities as sites of physical and moral contagion, and exalted suburban living as a literal form of “social distance” that separated individuals by race and nuclear family of origin in the supposed interests of health and wellbeing. The article argues that Montage celebrates Harlem’s diversity as a good made possible only by the crowded conditions writers of social protest fiction deplored. It concludes by considering how Hughes’s defense of urbanism remains relevant seventy years later, when a new version of the suburban impulse trumpets the internet instead of the automobile as an instrument to “free” New Yorkers from dangerous proximity to people different from themselves.","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":"42819956","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":"Origin of The Dream","authors":"Synthia Saint James","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0207","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":"47934147","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":"“My mother was my everything”: Police Murder, Family Loss and Deferred Dreams","authors":"Lashawn Harris","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0124","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 On December 9, 1984, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer fatally shot New York mother of three Sharon Walker. Police violence not only killed Walker: The bullet lodged in her body harmed all those who loved her, particularly her three teenage children. Broadening conversations on police violence, this article examines the diverse ways in which police violence and parental loss impact the lives of a less familiar community of police brutality survivors: children and teenagers. It employs the 1984 police murder of Sharon Walker and her children’s lives as a window into what anthropologist Christen Smith referred to as the “lingering, deathly aftereffects of police terror on the bodies of the living in the aftermath of police killings” (Smith, “Lingering Trauma” 370).","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":"46690374","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":"Blue Notes 2.0: The Diachronic Resonance of Langston Hughes During the George Floyd Protests: A Foreword","authors":"T. Bolden","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0109","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":"44598105","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":"Langston Hughes and Dream Deferral","authors":"K. Gilyard","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.28.2.0154","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 “Langston Hughes and Dream Deferral” examines the protests over George Floyd’s murder through the lens of Langston Hughes’s famous motif of dream deferral. Keith Gilyard argues that Hughes’s primary concern as a poet was illuminating the process by which black people’s dreams have been deferred throughout American history. However, much of the essay focuses on conflicting viewpoints on black resistance in the post-civil rights era. Gilyard shows how Hughes speaks to contemporary issues, interweaving between the poet’s commentaries on politics and the controversies over the use of violence during the protests.","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":"44879420","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":"Book Review","authors":"Collins","doi":"10.5325/langhughrevi.26.1.0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.26.1.0107","url":null,"abstract":"The demand that philosophy be relevant is not new. The book under review, without escaping this outcome, displays constant tension between supporting, on the one hand, a practical agenda with a rich display of deeply philosophic works, and on the other hand demonstrating useful application of those same texts, without compromising their complexity. Despite suggestive links to Nancy, Derrida, and Rancière, not enough attention is paid to the subtlety of deconstruction, and the result is a tenuous mixture of theory oriented toward the fascinating fields of art, psychotherapy, and politics. Collins begins by building her case from Rancière’s notion of ‘partage du sensible’, or, distribution of the sensible, and argues for, not necessarily the curative, but palliative effects of art therapy, stating in effect that ‘artwork makes political sense’ (1). Her book is divided into two parts. In the first, Collins seeks to demonstrate the affectivity of art objects and their utility toward healing individuals in a manner that, in bypassing the clinic, also challenges it. Each mode of the triadic structure of aesthetic experience – that is, artwork as aesthetic object, the spectator and their aesthetic encounter, and the relation conjoining artist and their creative art process – sustains the possibility for stimulating a transformative therapeutic. The hope is to cultivate a sense of, and provide a theoretical basis for an art practice that could exist independent of clinical intervention, without substituting it absolutely. Once having established support for an agency of transformative art practice, Collins in the second part works to expand this concept into a critical method of thinking that could institute socio-political change.","PeriodicalId":29877,"journal":{"name":"Langston Hughes Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46336956","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}
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