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| The American hallucination of Langston HughesCritic: jam Presley etymon: Southwest Review, Vol. 48, No. 4, Autumn, 1963, pp. 380-86. Reproduced by permission reproval about: (James) Langston Hughes (c. 1902-1967), also known as: Langston Hughes, James Langston Hughes, (James) (Mercer) Langston HughesYear of Source Publication: 1963 small Essay gloss: The American Dream of Langston Hughes Critic Name: James Presley Source Publication Title: Southwest Review Biography Link: Biographical/Critical Introduction to Langston Hughes [(essay date Autumn 1963) In the following essay, Presley looks at the theme of the American dream in Hughess poetry, drama, prose, and non-fiction.] One pass in Chicago when he was a teen-ager Langston Hughes felt the American Dream explode in his face; a family of white youths beat him up so badly that he went home with blacked eyes and a swollen jaw. He had been punish for cutting through a white neighborhood in the South Side on his way home from work.



That shadow as he tended his injuries young Hughes must have mused pallid thoughts about fulfilment of his American dream of freedom, justice, and opportunity for all. A few years after that traumatic Chicago afternoon Hughes inaugurated a prolific and versatile writing career. Over the foursome decades separating then and now, his reaction to the American Dream has been one of his intimately frequently recurring themes. For many years Hughes, often hailed as the poet laureate of the Negro people, has been recognized by white critics as an author-poet of the protest genre. Others, more conservative and denunciatory, have assailed Hughes as primitive and leftist, to mention the more polite language. In both instances the critics referred to Hughess preaching of imperfections in the American Dream that we, as a nation, postulate so dear....If you want to get a full essay, say it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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