Langston Hughes, “House in the World” (1–8) We might be surprised to read a poem resigned to the impossibility of liberating black life from the “white shadows” written by Langston Hughes who, just five years earlier, penned his essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” In “The Negro Artist,” considered by Arnold Rampersad to be “the finest essay of Hughes’s life” (Volume I 130), Hughes takes on the role of spokesman for the younger generation of artists who formed the core of the New Negro Movement, popularly referred to as the Harlem Renaissance, and boldly asserts their intention to develop a black aesthetic free of white influence.
There is no such house, Dark brothers, No such house At all. The African American writers focus on racial injustice and their works reflect the struggle for freedom and equality which has longed been denied blacks.ĮXCERPT IN LIEU OF ABSTRACT: I’m looking for a house In the world Where the white shadows Will not fall. African American writers expose familial relationships, spirituals and racial issues in different ways but agree that the Afro-American families are violated as much as individual black folks (Negroes) in their continuous struggle for emancipation. The theoretical framework of the research is new historicism which is simply the study of literature through which its cultural context and intellectual history is galvanized in the history of ideas and refers to itself as a form of cultural poetics.
The purpose of undertaking this study is to show how African American literature has treated the aforementioned Black aesthetics in the selected short stories by African American writers. Realistically, its literature treats race, spirituals, folkloric tradition and domestic themes that reflects in the struggle of an Afro-American individual and family to survive in the hostility of a new environment.
Every society produces a literature that carries the complexion of that society and African American society is not an exception.
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