Mulatto (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Langston Hughes
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
The Poem
Langston Hughes’s eleven-stanza narrative poem “Mulatto” explores the impact of a sexual union between unmarried people of different races. The offspring of such a union is a mixed-race or biracial child, sometimes referred to as a mulatto. Biracial people in the twenty-first century are less likely to experience the sense of displacement and rejection Hughes’s poem describes. However, the poem has unquestionable historical as well as aesthetic value.
“Mulatto,” set in the state of Georgia, relies on the stereotyped situation of sexual exploitation...
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