• Dr Amrita Ghosh

Langston Hughes wanted to capture the dominant oral and improvisatory traditions of Black culture in his poems and thus he wanted to manifest his distinctive Black identity and dreams. Hughes stresses the importance of a racial consciousness and cultural nationalism devoid of self-hate, that united people of African descent and Africa across the globe and encouraged pride in their own diverse black folk culture and black aesthetic. In order to do so, Hughes chose themes from Black life and explored Black consciousness in his poems. He revolutionised Black writing and introduced rhythms of Jazz and Blues in his poetry. He very often uses ‘stanza forms’, deriving from Black secular music, especially from the Blues music and adapted the vocabulary of everyday Black speech in his poetry without affirming stereotypes.

Black identity, Harlem Renaissance, American dream

"A Search for Black Identity, Consciousness and Dreams in the Poetry of Langston Hughes", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no.730-732, MAY-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805861.pdf

"A Search for Black Identity, Consciousness and Dreams in the Poetry of Langston Hughes", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no. pp730-732, MAY-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805861.pdf