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One Hundred Years of the Souls of Black Folk, 17: A Celebration of W. E. B. Du Bois Summer 2005 Num Edition
Contributor(s): Gooding-Williams, Robert (Author), McBride, Dwight A. (Author)

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ISBN: 0822366355     ISBN-13: 9780822366355
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: May 2005
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Annotation: Originally published in 1903. The Souls of Black Folk is W. E. B. Du Bois's biting critique of the racist and nationalist ideologies that animated the political culture of post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow America. This special issue of Public Culture celebrates and considers the influence of Souls during the last one hundred years. Featuring the work of a new generation of Du Bois scholars, it suggests that a full appreciation of Souls requires reading it as both literary art and political theory. This collection relies on the language of literary aesthetics to examine Du Bois's political agenda and, conversely, on varying accounts of that political agenda to assess his aesthetic choices. It also helps to understand why Souls became a literary and political classic and has played such a decisive role in the formation of twentieth-century African American literature and political thought. The essays explore a variety of topics: including the possibility that Souls was modeled on Richard Wagner's idea of a total artwork; Du Bois's thinking about the political significance of homosociality; and the interplay of racialism, nationalism, and globalism in Souls.

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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Social Science | People With Disabilities
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
Dewey: 973.049
Series: Public Culture
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 7.08" W x 8.54" L (0.61 lbs) 156 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
Features: Bibliography, Table of Contents
 
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Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is W. E. B. Du Bois's biting critique of the racist and nationalist ideologies that animated the political culture of post-Reconstruction, Jim Crow America. This special issue of Public Culture celebrates and considers the influence of Souls during the last one hundred years. Featuring the work of a new generation of Du Bois scholars, it suggests that a full appreciation of Souls requires reading it as both literary art and political theory.

This collection relies on the language of literary aesthetics to examine Du Bois's political agenda and, conversely, on varying accounts of that political agenda to assess his aesthetic choices. It also helps us understand why Souls became a literary and political classic and has played such a decisive role in the formation of twentieth-century African American literature and political thought. The essays explore a variety of topics, including the possibility that Souls was modeled on Richard Wagner's idea of a total artwork, Du Bois's thinking about the political significance of homosociality, and the interplay of racialism, nationalism, and globalism in Souls.

Contributors.
Anne E. Carroll, Vilashini Cooppan, Robert Gooding-Williams, Sheila Lloyd, Dwight A. McBride, Charles I. Nero, Cheryl A. Wall, Alexander G. Weheliye

 
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