Origins of the Dream : Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric
W Jason Miller
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Add to basketNeuware - Since Martin Luther King Jr. s "I Have a Dream" speech, some scholars have privately suspected that King s "dream" was connected to Langston Hughes s poetry. Drawing on archival materials, including notes, correspondence, and marginalia, W. Jason Miller provides a completely original and compelling argument that Hughes s influence on King s rhetoric was, in fact, evident in more than just the one famous speech.King s staff had been wiretapped by J. Edgar Hoover and suffered accusations of communist influence, so quoting or naming the leader of the Harlem Renaissance who had his own reputation as a communist would only have intensified the threats against the civil rights activist. Thus, the link was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King s orations. In Origins of the Dream, Miller lifts that veil and shows how Hughes s revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in King s voice. He contends that by employing Hughes s metaphors in his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to silence the poet s subversive voice. By separating Hughes s identity from his poems, King helped the nation unconsciously embrace the incendiary ideas behind his poetry.
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