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souls of black folk

Du Bois, Politics, Aesthetics: An Introduction

Robert Gooding-Williams
The essays collected in this issue celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. Published in 1903 by A. C.

Resounding Souls: Du Bois and the African American Literary Tradition

Cheryl A. Wall
By almost every critical reckoning, The Souls of Black Folk ([1903] 1989) is the preeminent statement of modern black consciousness.

Du Bois and Art Theory: The Souls of Black Folk as a "Total Work of Art"?

Anne E. Carroll
One of the most striking aspects of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is the author's use of lines of poetry and bars of song to open each of the book's fourteen chapters.

Queering The Souls of Black Folk

Charles I. Nero
In 1890, W. E. B. Du Bois delivered “Jefferson Davis as Representative of Civilization�

Du Bois and the Production of the Racial Picturesque

Sheila Lloyd
With her characteristic understatement, George Eliot exposes the English bourgeoisie’s use of picturesque art to af�rm its self-identi�cation and selectively to ignore aspects of realit

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