Abstract
.Postcolonial literary theory critically studies the cultural, societal and historical analysis and modes of discourse of the people of the colonies in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Third World. Moreover, postcolonial studies deal with forms of imperialism particularly the domination of some nations and people by other nations. Thus,"this rethinking of empire has brought the United States into focus as an object of postcolonial [studies]both as a contemporary empire and as itself a postcolonial nation"(Abrams,1960:307,8).African-American studies, however, fit together well with postcolonial studies as it "forms a number of angels interrogates the relations between the west pretty much the rest of the world in the light of the history or Western expansion and military and economic domination"(Bertens,2001:112).On this basis, it is possible to read and analyze the African-American literary themes through a postcolonial vision. However, the prevailing theme that most African-American poems tackle in common is the theme of racial discrimination, but it is rather meticulous to say what the poems share in terms of theme instead of mode. The present study aims at examining Langston Hughes's selected poems to judge whether the modes of these poems are romantic or racial and the motive behind this. This will give a better understanding of the personal and the psychological factors that affected the life of the African-American individual in the heyday of the racial segregation
Highlights
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is one of the innovative AfricanAmerican figures in the twenties and the early thirties of the last century
The present study aims at examining Langston Hughes's selected poems to judge whether the modes of these poems are romantic or racial and the motive behind this
In an interview Hughes affirmed that his work always aims" to interpret and comment upon Negro life, and its relation to the problem of democracy"(Wagner;1973:393).In Hughes's conveying the AfricanAmerican life there is a romantic system of modes inconsistent with reality
Summary
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is one of the innovative AfricanAmerican figures in the twenties and the early thirties of the last century. The poet dramatizes the historical experience of the African-American people in extreme way in that "The' I' of the poem is not that of 'a' negro but 'the' negro, suggesting the whole of the poem and their history"(Oktenberg; UD.).Every single element in the poem contributes to the idea that when the Negro speaks of rivers he speaks with a massed wisdom of a wise man.
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