Langston Hughes. Interplay, bebop & hip hop

In Langston Hughes’s poetics, the blues assumed a cathartic role in facing adversities, taking the shape of both a declaration of sorrow as well as of a therapy helping to relieve it, often by weakening its tragic elements through irony. To this purpose, Hughes wrote poems that could reproduce the r...

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Main Author: Adriano Elia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LED - Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto 2020-07-01
Series:Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne
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Online Access:https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/linguae/article/view/1881