2024-03-29T14:04:03Zhttps://riubu.ubu.es/oai/requestoai:riubu.ubu.es:10259/68162024-01-31T12:07:12Zcom_10259_6158com_10259_5086com_10259_2604col_10259_6159
Gender and race in Langston Hughes’ poetry of the Spanish Civil War
Fernández Alonso, Alba
Barros del Río, María Amor
Race
Gender
Langston Hughes
Poetry
Spanish Civil War
African American poet Langston Hughes worked as a press correspondent during the Spanish civil war. This experience left an imprint in his production and particularly in his poetry, giving light to significant advances in his entwinement of race, gender, and identity. The acclaimed diversity of Hughes’ feminine models, and his inclusive stance find difficult accommodation in the poetic corpus about Spain. Using a critical appraisal of race, class and gender divisions, the poetic representation of female characters is discussed attending to their different forms of inclusion and exclusion. Their relationship with later developments in Hughes’ poetic construction of African American female agency is assessed, and the singularity of certain characters in the Spanish corpus is explored. Finally, conclusions are drawn to demonstrate the relevant and understudied contributions of this corpus for the better understanding of Hughes’ feminine universe as a whole.
2022-08-24
2022-08-24
2022
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
0958-9236
http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6816
10.1080/09589236.2021.1927682
1465-3869
eng
Journal of Gender Studies. 2022, V. 31, n. 6, p. 671-683
https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2021.1927682
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group