Langston Hughes and American lynching culture / W. Jason Miller.

Contents Introduction -- The red summer of 1919: finding reassurance -- The Scottsboro case and World War II America: poetic anger -- Negotiating censorship in the 1950s: lynching as analogy -- Poetry as counternarrative: retelling history.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010023264
ISBN9780813035338 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813035333 (alk. paper)