W. E. B. Du BoisHarold Bloom 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Harvard in the Last Decades of the 19th Century | 5 |
Symbolic Structure in WEB Du Bois The Quest of the Silver Fleece | 23 |
WEB Du Bois and the Theory of a Black Aesthetic | 35 |
The Poetics of Ethiopianism | 57 |
WEB Du Bois as a Man of Literature | 71 |
Du Bois and the Illusion of Race | 87 |
The Political Uses of Alienation | 105 |
The Context of The Philadelphia Negro | 177 |
Du Boiss Propaganda of the Dark World | 211 |
WEB Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana 190963 | 227 |
Chronology | 245 |
Contributors | 251 |
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Acknowledgments | 259 |
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