Seizing the word : history, art, and self in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois /
Seizing the Word makes available for the first time a comprehensive reading of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), a pivotal figure in the intellectual life of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. As a historian, journalist, novelist, poet, and social and literary critic, this extraordin...
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[1994]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Word and the Self
- 1. Master and Man: The Souls of Black Folk as Mastering Narrative
- 2. "Cold-Blooded Science": The Suppression of the Slave-Trade and The Philadelphia Negro
- 3. The Propaganda of History: Black Reconstruction in America
- 4. Inscribing the Race: The Historical Drama of Africa and the Diaspora
- 5. The Propaganda of Art: Ideology and Literary Practice
- 6. Race and Romance: The Quest of the Silver Fleece and Dark Princess
- 7. Revisions and Visions: The Trilogy as History
- 8. History as Hagiography: John Brown and the Black Self
- 9. The Propaganda of Life: Darkwater and Dusk of Dawn
- 10. Seizing the Self: In Battle for Peace and The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois.