Mulatto (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Langston Hughes
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
“Mulatto,” written by Langston Hughes in the summer of 1926, appeared both in The Saturday Review of Literature and in Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), a collection of Hughes's work. Hughes said that the poem is about “white fathers and Negro mothers in the South.”
The opening voice in “Mulatto” is that of the son, who says, “I am your son, white man!” The child stands in judgment of the father's use of the mother's body. The white father renounces the mixed-blood son (lines 5 and 6): “You are my son/ Like hell!” The next twenty lines of...
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