Question

In the literary analysis of "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," what can be considered the main conflict in the essay?

Answer 1

Langston Hughes in his essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” introduces the readers to the issue about the continuous conflict undergoing in the mind of a Negro poet. He speaks about one of his fellow African-American poet who wants to be a poet and not a Negro poet. Hughes speaks about the revival of jazz, blues and the literary works which focuses on the life of African-American life. He doesn’t want that the African-Americans to be associated with the whites while their portrayal in any literary works. He wanted that the way they are, the literature should be a mirror of it.