Cambridge Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois

Informationen zum Autor Shamoon Zamir is Reader in American Studies at King's College London. Klappentext An overview of the life! work and continuing importance of the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung As the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century and author of The Souls of Black Folk! W. E. B. Du Bois remains a central figure in American history and culture today. This Companion is an important contribution to African American studies! American literature! and American studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction Shamoon Zamir; 1. The Souls of Black Folk: thought and afterthought Shamoon Zamir; 2. 'Of the Coming of John' Sieglinde Lemke; 3. The fiction of W. E. B. Du Bois Jennifer Terry; 4. Du Bois and the 'New Negro' Carmiele Y. Wilkerson and Shamoon Zamir; 5. Du Bois, Black leadership and civil rights Kimberly Springer; 6. Du Bois, race and diversity Ange-Marie Hancock; 7. Du Bois on race: economic & cultural perspectives Axel Schaefer; 8. Africa and Pan-Africanism in the thought of Du Bois Wilson Jeremiah Moses; 9. The place of W. E. B. Du Bois in American and European intellectual history Richard King; 10. Race, Marxism and colonial experience: Du Bois and Fanon Michael Stone-Richards; Guide to further reading.

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• Authors: Shamoon Zamir, Shamoon (King''''s College London) Zamir
• Assisted by: Shamoon Zamir (Editor), Shamoon (King's College London) Zamir (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2008
• EAN: 9780521692052
• ISBN: 978-0-521-69205-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Cambridge Companions to American Studies; Cambridge Companions to Americ
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research