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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| Language: | English |
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Urbino University Press
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne |
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| Online Access: | https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/linguae/article/view/1881 |