ISBN:
0791059154
,
9780791059159
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 271 p)
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Modern critical views
Parallel Title:
Print version W.E.B. Du Bois
DDC:
305.896/073/092
Keywords:
Du Bois, W. E. B Criticism and interpretation
;
Du Bois, W. E. B Political and social views
;
African American aesthetics
;
Black nationalism
;
African Americans Intellectual life 20th century
;
African Americans Politics and government
;
Politics and literature History 20th century
;
United States Race relations
Abstract:
-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights. -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; Harvard in the Last Decades of the 19th Century; Swamp versus Plantation: Symbolic Structure in W.E.B. Du Bois' The Quest of the Silver Fleece; W.E.B. Du Bois and the Theory of a Black Aesthetic; The Poetics of Ethiopianism; W.E.B. Du Bois as a Man of Literature; The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race; The Political Uses of Alienation; Du Bois on the Invention of Race; A "Prosody of Those Dark Voices": The Transformation of Consciousness; The Context of The Philadelphia Negro
Description / Table of Contents:
Romancing the Body Politic: Du Bois's Propaganda of the Dark WorldW.E.B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana, 1909-63; Chronology; Contributors; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Permalink
