It attempts a compound approach of analysis, presupposing two levels of the conflict: (a) one related to black and white American personae on the enounced level of the poetic text world, and (b) the other pertaining to Hughes, as a black American poet and person, and his readers or critics on the coding level of reality. The study explores the stylistic patterns employed in the poems to deliver this message. In a twofold self-defense, Hughes and his black American personae counteract the Whites' racial stereotypes through an affirmation of their race-pride that evolves from a deep selfacceptance of their own beauty and ugliness as equal, yet distinct, people within the American nation.

The present study seeks to stylistically investigate Langston Hughes's dramatization of the racial conflict between black and white Americans in his best relevant poems. In this article, we have chosen those poems of Hughes which throw light on how they were exploited and marginalized based on color. Langston Hughes, an Harlem Renaissance poet of the early twentieth century was also one among them who fought through his writings to create a better state for his people based on equality. Many following generations of writers have been inspired by this tradition and tried to free their people from the shackles of bondage. In the middle of the eighteenth century people began writing about the racist, arrogant and oppressive treatment of the white Americans to bring awareness and unity in the Afro-Americans to fight for the common cause. Initially they were brought as indentured laborers but the whole scenario got changed after some time and slavery became the practice of the day.

The exploitation of Afro-Americans started as soon as they stepped on the land of America in 1607 at James Town, Virginia. In this paper, we attempt to gain some insight into the problems faced by the African-Americans before they attained equal rights in American society.

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