Dark Princess (the Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): A Romance
| AUTHOR | Gates, Henry Louis; Gates, Henry Louis; Du Bois, W. E. B. et al. |
| PUBLISHER | Oxford University Press, USA (03/15/2007) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. The Dark Princess is a story of magical love and radical politics, a romance facing obstacles in a white-dominated world. Du Bois's allegorical tale follows Mathew Townes from his political disillusionment to his association with a powerful and seductive revolutionary leader, Kautilya, the princess of the Tibetan Kingdom of Bwodpur. With Dark Princess, Du Bois explores the color line from a fantastical angle while inserting his signature sociological style. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Homi Bhahba, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.
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ISBN-13:
9780195325799
ISBN-10:
0195325796
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
274
Carton Quantity:
1
Feature Codes:
Bibliography
Country of Origin:
US
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Fiction | Classics
Fiction | Literary
Dewey Decimal:
FIC
Library of Congress Control Number:
2007008574
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological and historical research on African-American communities and culture broke ground in many areas, including the history of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period. Du Bois was also a prolific author of novels, autobiographical accounts, innumerable editorials and journalistic pieces, and several works of history. The Dark Princess is a story of magical love and radical politics, a romance facing obstacles in a white-dominated world. Du Bois's allegorical tale follows Mathew Townes from his political disillusionment to his association with a powerful and seductive revolutionary leader, Kautilya, the princess of the Tibetan Kingdom of Bwodpur. With Dark Princess, Du Bois explores the color line from a fantastical angle while inserting his signature sociological style. With a series introduction by editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and an introduction by Homi Bhahba, this edition is essential for anyone interested in African American history.
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Introduction by:
Bhabha, Homi K.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Chair of Afro-American Studies, and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. In 1997 he was listed among Time magazine's '25 Most Influential Americans'. Gates' publications
include Figures in Black (OUP, 1987), The Signifying Monkey (OUP, 1988), Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (Random House, 1997), Wonders of the African World (Knopf, 1999), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (Perseus, 1999), and The African American
Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century (Perseus, 2000). One of the world's most prominent and influential figures in the fields of postcolonial studies and cultural theory, Homi K. Bhabha is Professor of English at Harvard University.
include Figures in Black (OUP, 1987), The Signifying Monkey (OUP, 1988), Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (Random House, 1997), Wonders of the African World (Knopf, 1999), Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (Perseus, 1999), and The African American
Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century (Perseus, 2000). One of the world's most prominent and influential figures in the fields of postcolonial studies and cultural theory, Homi K. Bhabha is Professor of English at Harvard University.
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