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Cosmopolitanism in the fictive imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois : toward the humanization of a revolutionary art /

"This book traces W.E.B. Du Bois's fictionalization of history in his five major works of fiction and in his debut short story The Souls of Black Folk through a thematic framework of cosmopolitanism. In texts like The Negro and Black Folk: Then and Now, Du Bois argues that the human race o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doku, Samuel O. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
Colección:Critical Africana studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Africology and Hebraism: tropes of classical humanism in The quest of the silver fleece and the souls of black folk
  • Good character challenges hegemony in The quest of the silver fleece
  • Heuristic appraisal of avant-garde cosmopolitanism in The quest of the silver fleece
  • Discrepant cosmopolitanism in the imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois in Dark princess: a romance
  • Universal symbolism of culture in Dark princess: a romance
  • Beyond the color line: black cosmopolitanism as thematic design in The black flame
  • Genesis of traditional Pan-Africanism and its aftermath
  • A botched master plan for continental Pan-Africanism and friends of Du Bois in Africa and the Caribbean
  • W.E.B. Du Bois, the inspiration of Gandhi, and the Pan-Asian connection
  • Barack Obama epitomizes Du Bois's vision in Dark princess: Nkrumah and Du Bois emerge as unheralded cosmopolitans
  • Epilogue: The great redeemer.