IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cxi/jlls00/v4y2026i2id883.html

The Voice of the Blacks in Langston Hughes' Poetry: From Marginalization to Resistance

Author

Listed:
  • Khaled Saoud Chayed

    (Assistant Lecturer, AL-Muthanna University, University Presidency, Iraq)

Abstract

This study examines how the Black voice is depicted in Langston Hughes's expressive works. It focuses on how the Black voice shifts from marginalized to oppositional. Langston Hughes is a figure of the Harlem Renaissance. He uses expressive language to discuss the struggles, correspondence, and substance of African Americans. They face plenty of segregation. They are expelled from breeding. The research uses a foundation that connects beliefs. These involve hypothesis, an African American detailed analysis of documents, and enlightening fighting studies. These approaches help us visualize how, through what Langston Hughes gives the Black society a voice, repeated. He helps the Black community define itself and enhance its capacity. The study examines a few of Langston Hughes' poems, including "I, Too," "Let America Be America Again," and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." It shows how being marginalized helps the Black community withstand and form a sense of belonging. The paper looks more at how Langston Hughes uses terminology, slang, and sounds that are pleasant, harmonized like depression and bop, in a welcome expression. These belongings help the Black society maintain an allure and challenge the government. Langston Hughes' expression is not about the distressing events that take place to African Americans. It also helps bureaucracy express its excellence, unity, and hope. The study mentions that Langston Hughes created an expressive place where marginalized voices can be asserted. The Black voice challenges the tales that the main groups express. The Black voice maintains an alluring place in organization and in all human discourse. Langston Hughes' expressive is a form for the Black society to express itself and advocate for it. The study says that Langston Hughes makes poetry a place where marginalized voices can speak up. The Black voice challenges the stories that dominant groups tell. The Black voice asserts its place in society and in the whole human conversation. Langston Hughes' poetry is a tool for the Black community to express itself and fight for its rights.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:cxi:jlls00:v:4:y:2026:i:2:id:883
DOI: 10.61424/jlls.v4i2.883
as

Download full text from publisher

File URL: https://bluemarkpublishers.com/index.php/JLLS/article/view/883
File Function: Abstract page
Download Restriction: no

File URL: https://bluemarkpublishers.com/index.php/JLLS/article/download/883/662
File Function: Full text
Download Restriction: no

File URL: https://libkey.io/10.61424/jlls.v4i2.883?utm_source=ideas
LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
---><---

More about this item

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cxi:jlls00:v:4:y:2026:i:2:id:883. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Editorial Team (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://bluemarkpublishers.com/index.php/JLLS .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.