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LANGSTON HUGHES A COLLECTION OF POEMS
Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.
168 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1998
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November 13, 2018
A cup of hot tea and Langston Hughes' collection of poems seems like super great combination to ease the boredom after the whole day seminar. The book does not only offer Hughes' poems but also the analysis related to Hughes and his Harlem Renaissance.
I found an intriguing quote in this book saying "To some, "blackness" became a cure for the ills of modern life, an excuse for indulging "primitive" fantasies. For some whites, visiting black clubs or theaters, with little regard for the full time inhabitants of the black community - "slumming," in the parlance of the day - was dangerous escapism." It somehow reminds me a little bit of Edward Said's notion on Orientalism. Said mentions that the cultural representation of those non-Western people will always go around the negative stigma.
Either Hughes and Said have a similarity in this matter. In Hughes' case, there are many of the negative connotation of blackness such as laziness, promiscuity and agressiveness were simply turned on the Westerners' head. This later confirms Said's notion on Orientalism.
In the end of my thought, my head is filled will a question whether decades later, does this notion of Said's Orientalism still exist through people's prejudice towards the coloured people?
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I found an intriguing quote in this book saying "To some, "blackness" became a cure for the ills of modern life, an excuse for indulging "primitive" fantasies. For some whites, visiting black clubs or theaters, with little regard for the full time inhabitants of the black community - "slumming," in the parlance of the day - was dangerous escapism." It somehow reminds me a little bit of Edward Said's notion on Orientalism. Said mentions that the cultural representation of those non-Western people will always go around the negative stigma.
Either Hughes and Said have a similarity in this matter. In Hughes' case, there are many of the negative connotation of blackness such as laziness, promiscuity and agressiveness were simply turned on the Westerners' head. This later confirms Said's notion on Orientalism.
In the end of my thought, my head is filled will a question whether decades later, does this notion of Said's Orientalism still exist through people's prejudice towards the coloured people?
.
.
.
#literature #booklove #booklover #bibliophile #langstonhughespoems #langstonhughes #harlemreinassance #edwardsaid #orientalism #ilovereading #igreads #igbook #instaread #instabooks #bookish #bookshelf #bookaholic #letsread #ilovebook #bookstagramindonesia #bookphotography #booknerd #lovereading #bookofinstagram #bookstagram #shelfie #descaslibrary #descalibrary #prejudice
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