How has the media, beginning with the Persian Gulf War, altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Jeanne Colleran examines more than forty plays, most of which were written in direct response to the emergent New World Orde…
This text explores the effects of mediatization on the public sphere and on the nature of interventionary art, it looks specifically at issues attached to the war in Iraq: censorship, torture, detention, representations of Muslim identity, race, class, and gender issues in the a…
How has the media, beginning with the Persian Gulf War, altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Jeanne Colleran examines more than forty plays, most of which were written in direct response to the emergent New World Orde…
This text explores the effects of mediatization on the public sphere and on the nature of interventionary art, it looks specifically at issues attached to the war in Iraq: censorship, torture, detention, representations of Muslim identity, race, class, and gender issues in the a…
The political plays of Langston Hughes
by Duffy, Susan, Hughes, Langston, Hughes, Langston
Among the most influential poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is perhaps best remembered for the innovative use of jazz rhythms in his writing. While his poetry and essays received much public acclaim and scholarly attention, Hughes' dramas are relatively unknown. …
