Rozmanité Blues: Poetika Langstona Hughese

Zídková, Pavla

In the first half of the 1920s, the New Negro movement aimed to capture the changing African American consciousness of the times. Based on the aesthetic and philosophical thoughts articulated by its representatives, among whom the most central figures were Alain Locke and W. E. B. DuBois, a new artistic movement arose - the so-called "Harlem Renaissance". This study is an initial attempt to investigate the relationship between the poetics of Langston Hughes (since Hughes is generally considered one of the most prominent representatives of the "Harlem Renaissance") and the "New Negro" aesthetic ideas as outlined in the movement's defining anthology, The New Negro. The primary material considered consists of Hughes's poems published between 1926, when his first collection, The Weary Blues, was published, and 1942, marked by appearance of his collection Shakespeare in Harem. The choice to analyse this particular range of Hughes's writing reflects the focus of the thesis - these works were published during and several years after the philosophical predominance of the New Negro movement and the peak of its principal aesthetic manifestation, the "Harlem Renaissance." The chosen corpus allows us to assess the transformation of African American sensibility and recognise the achievements and/or failures...

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