The Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois

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ID19944447
AuthorsSieglinde Lemke, Jennifer Terry (0000-0002-6843-7116), Carmiele Y Wilkerson, K Springer (0000-0001-8342-3794), Ange-Marie Hancock (0000-0002-2965-4142), Axel R Schäfer, Wilson Jeremiah Moses, Richard H King, Michael Stone-Richards
EditorsShamoon Zamir
Year2008
Publication date2008-09-11
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Cambridge Companion to W.E.B Du Bois (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/ccol9780521871518
OpenAlexW613519831
Open LibraryOL10436525M
ISBN9780521871518
LanguageEN
Citations received10

W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he made the problem of race central to an understanding of the United States within both national and transnational contexts; his masterwork The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is today among the most widely read and most often quoted works of American literature. This Companion presents ten specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars which explore key aspects of Du Bois's work. The book offers students a critical introduction to Du Bois, as well as opening new pathways into the further study of his remarkable career. It will be of interest to all those working in African American studies, American literature, and American studies generally

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