| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xli, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Norton critical edition
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Norton critical edition.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-374). |
| Contents |
Text of the souls of black folk -- Contexts: Political context: -- Standard printed version of the Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- (Obituary of Booker T. Washington) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Civilization, the primal need of the race / Alexander Crummell -- Conservation of races / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Niagara movement: Address to the country / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Personal context: -- (Application letter to Harvard) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- From A Negro student at Harvard at the end of the nineteenth century / W.E.B. Du Bois -- (Celebrating his twenty-fifth birthday) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Photographs: From Negro as he really is / A. Radclyffe Dugmore -- Credo / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Litany of Atlanta / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Criticism: Early criticism -- From W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a race / David Levering Lewis -- (Praise for souls) / William James -- (Review of souls) / (Anonymous) -- Two Negro leaders / John Spencer Bassett -- (Review of souls) / John Daniels -- Modern criticism: -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the idea of double consciousness / Dickson D. Bruce Jr. -- Du Bois's counter-sublime / Robert Gooding-Williams -- From W.E.B. Du Bois: Black women in his writings- selected fictional and autobiographical portraits / Nellie McKay -- Neighbors, strangers corpses: Death and sympathy in the early writings of W.E.B. Du Bois / Susan Mizruchi -- Slavery and the literary imagination: Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk / Arnold Rampersad -- From Swing Low: The Souls of Black Folk / Eric J. Sundquist -- "The Sorrow Songs" / "Song of Myself": Du Bois, the Crisis of Leadership, and Prophetic Imagination / Shamoon Zamir -- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: A chronology. |
| Summary |
A collection of essays presenting the plight of the Black man in America, first published in 1903. |
| Subject |
African Americans.
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African Americans. |
| Added Author |
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
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Oliver, Terri Hume.
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| ISBN |
039397393X (paperback) |
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9780393973938 (paperback) |
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