The Power of Satire: Exploring Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” and Charles Chaplin’s “The Dictator”

In a three page single-spaced response, address the following prompt:

In what ways are two works from those listed below in conversation with each other, historically, culturally (which can include studies of race, ethnicity, gender, or other distinction), politically, biographically, psychoanalytically, economically and/or structurally, in their uses of satire? Please choose one literary text (novel, short story or poem) and one cinematic text.

Literary Text:
Langston Hughes America Be America Again

Cinematic Texts:
Charles Chaplin, The Dictator

Support your study with at least two outside scholarly sources that contextualize the materials analyzed (one literary text and one cinematic text). Please cite these sources in the paper and in the works cited page (the works cited page is separate from the 3 pages required).

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