To Save and Destroy: Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Theories of the Archive.
This article offers poetry criticism of the works of African American poets Langston Hughes and Melvin B. Tolson. It examines the themes of archives and archiving in their works, focusing on the relationship between archives and the development of national identity through poetry. The author focuses...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Literature Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 108 - 146 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Spring2011
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| Sumario: | This article offers poetry criticism of the works of African American poets Langston Hughes and Melvin B. Tolson. It examines the themes of archives and archiving in their works, focusing on the relationship between archives and the development of national identity through poetry. The author focuses on the political and historical significance of the poem "Prelude to Our Age: A Negro History Poem" by Hughes and the work "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia" by Tolson. |
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