Excerpt from "Performance Practice as Site of Opposition" by bell hooks
Excerpt from "Performance Practice as Site of Opposition" by bell hooks

"The poetry of Langston Hughes epitomises this emphasis on recitation. In poems like The Dream Deferred, where the writer shifts back and forth between standard English, dialect and patois, one cannot hear the distinct voices in his work unless these works are read aloud – performed."

Stephanie Marie Cedeño
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