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Author:

Miller, W. Jason, author.

Title:

Origins of the dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric / W. Jason Miller.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Hughes, Langston,--1902-1967--Influence.
King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968.
American poetry--African American authors.
African Americans--History.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
African American poets--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index.

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 -- Conclusion: extending the dream.

ISBN:

0813060443 (hardcover)
9780813060446 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)876882967

LCCN:

2014031882

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)