Origins of the dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric / W. Jason Miller.
By: Miller, W. Jason [author.].
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]Description: ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780813060446 (hardcover).Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PS3515.U274 Z6844 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000009047 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240) and index.
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.