Open Access“One-Way-Ticket”: When Langston Hughes Traduces the Massive, Absolute and Obligatory Immigration of Today's Africans
Author(s) -
Beugre Zouankouan Stéphane
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2017.v13n23p153
Subject(s) - immigration , ticket , absolute (philosophy) , poetry , history , mass migration , space (punctuation) , genealogy , literature , art , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , computer science , computer security , epistemology
This paper aims to analyze how Langston Hughes through his poem “One-Way-Ticket” while expressing why blacks were obliged to flee the Big South to the North of the United Sates. He expresses also in a metaphorical and symbolical language many centuries later in the same poem the reasons why and the reality linked to the motivations of today’s Africans mass immigration towards Europe, the North also. Although separated in time and space, the different characteristics are the same in terms of pull and push factors concerning the past “Great Migration” and today’s Africans mass immigration.