“Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag of Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes’s “Spectacles in Color” envisions Harlem culture as a drag performance. The Weary Blues records a lyric history of modernist Harlem in poems that perform in drag, an aesthetic of visual crossing. This aesthetic ironically coincides with and also countermands the identitarian stereotypes of African Americans and queers that were propagated by early-twentieth-century sexological science and degeneration theory.
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Vol 9
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pp. 22-33
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Vol 17
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pp. 305-323
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Vol 15
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pp. 197-200
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Vol 66
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pp. 38-42
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Vol 48
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pp. 687-689
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