{"id":25660,"date":"2012-09-29T23:30:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25660"},"modified":"2015-02-01T22:08:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:08:28","slug":"stonequist%e2%80%99s-concept-of-%e2%80%9cthe-marginal-man%e2%80%9d-in-langston-hughes%e2%80%99-play-mulatto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25660","title":{"rendered":"Stonequist\u2019s Concept of \u201cThe Marginal Man\u201d in Langston Hughes\u2019 Play Mulatto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.aiac.org.au\/index.php\/IJALEL\/article\/view\/759\" target=\"_blank\">Stonequist\u2019s Concept of \u201cThe Marginal Man\u201d in Langston Hughes\u2019 Play Mulatto<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.aiac.org.au\/index.php\/IJALEL\" target=\"_blank\">International Journal of Applied Linguistics &amp; English Literature<\/a><br \/>\nISSN 2200-3592 (Print), ISSN 2200-3452 (Online)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.aiac.org.au\/index.php\/IJALEL\/issue\/view\/68\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 1, Number 4<\/a> (September 2012)<br \/>\npages 125-130<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:nowrouzi.farshid@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Tehran, Iran<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:asgar@um.ac.ir\" target=\"_blank\">Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Letters and Humanities<br \/>\n<em>Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Born with the inception of the slave trade, interracial mixing has always been a moot point throughout the history of the United States. In America\u2019s racist climate, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a> offspring of every interracial relationship was deemed by the dominant white society to be born of transgression and thus was marginalized and disenfranchised as an alleged tainter of white \u201cpure blood\u201d and a threat to the societal system of structural positions. Facing discrimination and injustice like black Americans, white-black mulattoes also suffered from not belonging to a definite racial group. This duality of a mixed-blood\u2019s life has grabbed the attention of many scholars including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Everett_Stonequist\" target=\"_blank\">Everett Verner Stonequist<\/a> who discussed the fragile subalternized status of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=462\" target=\"_blank\">marginal man<\/a>\u201d in an antagonistic environment while he rejects and craves for both of his racial ancestries at the same time. Envisioning a three-phase life-cycle for a mulatto, Stonequist maintained that the mulatto has either to conform to the status quo and survive or defy the power structures and embrace, mostly unfavorable, consequences. This paper aims to apply Stonequist\u2019s concept of \u201cmarginal man\u201d to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langston_Hughes\" target=\"_blank\">Langston Hughes\u2019<\/a> play <em>Mulatto<\/em> (1935) and tries to show how the alienated and rootless protagonist is inevitably precipitated into death and destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.aiac.org.au\/index.php\/IJALEL\/article\/view\/759\/689\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stonequist\u2019s Concept of \u201cThe Marginal Man\u201d in Langston Hughes\u2019 Play Mulatto International Journal of Applied Linguistics &amp; English Literature ISSN 2200-3592 (Print), ISSN 2200-3452 (Online) Volume 1, Number 4 (September 2012) pages 125-130 Farshid Nowrouzi Roshnavand University of Tehran, Iran Rajabali Askarzadeh Torghabeh, Assistant Professor of Letters and Humanities Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran Born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[1827,3816,12193,12188,12187,12189,12192,488,12190,12186,12191],"class_list":["post-25660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-everett-stonequist","tag-everett-v-stonequist","tag-everett-verner-stonequist","tag-farshid-n-roshnavand","tag-farshid-nowrouzi-roshnavand","tag-farshid-roshnavand","tag-international-journal-of-applied-linguistics-english-literature","tag-langston-hughes","tag-rajabali-a-torghabeh","tag-rajabali-askarzadeh-torghabeh","tag-rajabali-torghabeh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}