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ERIC Number: EJ419774
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0994
Pretext, Context, Subtext: Textual Power in the Writing of Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bogumil, Mary L.; Molino, Michael R.
College English, v52 n7 p800-11 Nov 1990
Studies verbal pretexts, social subtexts, and interpretive contexts of works by Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Notes that cultural repression is propagated (and dispelled) in part through the power of language. Notes that these texts are relevant for teaching textual power in hopes of affecting social change. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Social Change, Text Structure
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Hughes (Langston); King (Martin Luther Jr); Wright (Richard)