| Description |
1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword / Arthur McFarlane II -- Introduction: Africana rhetoric of dealienation / Monique Leslie Akassi -- African-centered conceptualizations of Africa in W.E.B. Du Bois's work: an analysis of their essentiality / Abdul Karim Bangura -- Beauty and the rhetoric of racial supremacy in Dusk of Dawn / Derrais Carter -- "She walked on worlds": myth, sexuality and class as rhetorical strategies in Du Bois's The Quest of the Silver Fleece and The Souls of Black Folk / Carrza Du Bose -- W.E.B. Du Bois's contribution to Africana studies / Ronald A. Kuykendall -- W.E.B. Du Bois: writer, scholar, activist, pan-Africanist, 1868-1963 / David Leon Reed -- Unveiling rhetorical strategies in a postcolonial era: tropes of (de)alienation in The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois / Monique Leslie Akassi -- The rhetorical strategies of W.E.B. Du Bois in "The Prayers of God": God's view as propaganda / Rieko Tomisawa -- Of knowledge and social critique: W.E.B. Du Bois's metaphor of the tower / Robert W. Williams -- Record of the Darker Races: rhetorical marginality, cultural commonplaces and visual literacy / Reva E. Sias -- The propaganda of history: a womanist critical analysis of voice and redefinition in W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction / Rondee Gaines -- W.E.B. Du Bois, the death of the talented tenth and the birth of the guiding hundredth: black conservatism, black radicalism and critical social theory / Reiland Rabaka |
| Summary |
As the rich words from the African proverbs resonate into the twenty-first century regarding the importance of identity and telling the stories of people of African descent through the eyes of the people, the grand rhetorician and griot of the twentieth century Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's infamous problem remains so today - ""the problem of the colour-line."" After the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the first African American president of the United States; after the Civil Rights Movement; after Brown versus the Board of Education; after the students' right to their own language |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 12, 2018) |
| Subject |
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 fast (OCoLC)fst00053661 |
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Radicalism -- United States -- 20th century
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Critical theory -- United States -- 20th century
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Race in literature -- History and criticism
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Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies.
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Propaganda.
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Political activism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Radicalism.
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Race in literature.
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Critical theory.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Akassi, Monique Leslie, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781527520851 |
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1527520854 |
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