Cosmopolitanism in the fictive imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois : toward the humanization of a revolutionary art / Dr. Samuel O. Doku.
"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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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.