GROUP MEMBERSRABIA KHAN

ZEBA

NAZIA KHAN

HIBA

7TH SEMESTER ENGLISH DEPARMENT

SARDAR BAHADUR KHAN WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY QUETTA

5 JUNE 2015

AFRO-AMERICANPRESENTATION

Poems by Langston HughesDreamHarlem (Dream Deferred)

AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE

• Literature it produced in United States by writers of African descents such as Philis Wheatley.

• Literature is dominated by autobiographical naratives and reached the peak by slave narratives.

• The role of African Americans, their culture, racism, slavery and social equality.

• Explores the issues of freedom and equality of blacks.

• Harlem renaissance (1920’s) 1. Name given to social,

cultural and artistic expressions.

2. Also known as "New Negro Movement" by Alan Locke" .

3. Includes of new African American cultural expression and is considered as revival of African American art.

4. Blacks got confidence to question the white aesthetic standard and enjoy the critical favors and financial rewards

WRITER’S INTRODUCTION:

1. Langston Hughes (1st February 1902 to 22nd May 1967) an American poet, novelist and playwright with African American themes

2. " The Wear Blue" in 1926 and “Not Without Laughter" in 1930 made him won gold medal for literature

3. Didn't differentiated between personal experience and common experience of blacks.

4. Wanted to tell stories of his people and their culture and their love for music, laughter and language itself and

5. Left behind large body of poetic work such as a dream and the dream deferred

THEMES: DREAMS

• Dreams are not something that dwell's on clouds, but it crawl on Earth.

• Unfulfilled dreams haunt us like ghosts.

DREAMS

CRITICAL ANALYSIS

• Personification :The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human

• Metaphor: The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as

• Hold fast to dreams (personified)

• For if dreams die(personified)

• Life is a broken –winged bird(metaphor)

• That cannot fly(personified)

• Hold fast to dreams

• For when dreams go (personified)

• Life is a barren field(metaphor)

• Frozen with snow(personification)

• Rhyme

HARLEM(DREAM DEFERRED)

CRITICAL ANALYSIS

• Alliteration :it is the repetition of a consonant sound

• What happens to a dream deferred

• Does it dry up

• Syrupy sweet

• Simile :a  figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as

• Grotesque

• Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun

• Fester like a sore

• Does it stink like a rotten meat

LETS WRAP IT UP!

• Same theme but two different questions:• Dream: What happens when dream dies?• Harlem{dream deferred}: What happens

when dreams are let go?

• More lyrical with gentle images

FRUSTRATION!!!!

THE NEGRO WAS IN VOGUE!!!!!!!

ARTIST, BLACK AND AMERICAN!!!!

KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE, KEEP HOPE

ALIVE!!!