Описание: For years, some scholars have privately suspected Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech was connected to Langston Hughess poetry, and the link between the two was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in Kings orations. In Origins of the Dream, W. Jason Miller lifts that veil to demonstrate how Hughess revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in Kings voice, and that the influence can be found in more than just the one famous speech.
Miller contends that by employing Hughess metaphors in his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to silence the poets subversive voice. He argues that by using allusion rather than quotation, King avoided intensifying the threats and accusations against him, while allowing the nation to unconsciously embrace the incendiary ideas behind Hughess poetry.
