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Introduction
Chapter One The American Dream as a Form of "Raisin"
1.1 The Black's Life in Hughes's Poetry
1.1.1 Economic Exploitation
1.1.2 Political Discrimination
1.1.3 Physical Conditions
1.2 The Disillusion with the Promised American Dream
1.2.1 The Change From the Romantic to Reality
1.2.2 The Frustration Among the Black
1.3 The Dream of the Humorous and Enduring Blacks
1.3.1 The Basic Living Wishes
1.3.2 The Spiritual Aspiration
1.3.3 The Fantasy About the Black Culture
Chapter Two The American Dream in the Form of the Blues
2.1 The Blues and Its Features
2.1.1 The Definition of the Blues
2.1.2 The Structure of the Blues
2.1.3 The Features of the Blues
2.2 Tonality of the Blues in Montage
2.2.1 Tonality of the Blues
2.2.2 The Sentiment in Montage
2.3 Other Features of the Blues in Montage
2.3.1 Call-and-Response Pattern
2.3.2 Refrain
2.3.3 The Demotic Language
2.3.4 The Blues Images
2.3.5 The Blues Rhythm
2.3.6 The Parallelism
2.3.7 The Blues Chorus
Chapter Three The Black Aesthetics of American Dream in Hughes's Poetry
3.1 The Dream Deferred as the Truth of the Black's Dream
3.1.1 The Stand-in of the Blues
3.1.2 Boogie and Be-Bop
3.1.3 The Truth of the Black's Dream
3.2 A Continuation of the Black's Dream
3.2.1The Spiral of the Dream
3.2.2 The Continuation of the Dream
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
Acknowledgements
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