LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 19:10 October 2019
ISSN 1930-2940

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W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk:
Freedom, Equality and Racial Discrimination

T. Deivasigamani, Ph.D.


W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Courtesy: https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-w-e-b-dubois/

Abstract

Students and research scholars who want to specialize in Black Literature must read W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, published originally in 1903. The book has 14 chapters, preceded by a section THE FORETHOUGHT and followed by the section AFTERTHOUGHT.

The following are the chapters of the book The Souls of Black Folk.

1. Of Our Spiritual Strivings.
2. Of the Dawn of Freedom
3. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
4. Of the Meaning of Progress
5. Of the Wings of Atlanta
6. Of the Training of Black Men
7. Of the Black Belt
8. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece
9. Of the Sons of Master and Man
10. Of the Faith of the Fathers
11. Of the Passing of the First-Born
12. Of Alexander Crummell
12. Of the Coming of John
13. Of the Borrow Songs

Keywords: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Black literature, autobiographical literature

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. He was born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA and died on August 27, 1963 in Accra, Ghana. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1895 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois). He was a great “American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century” (Elliott Rudwick, https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-E-B-Du-Bois).

Du Bois uses an elegant language in this masterpiece, but sentences are usually long with several clauses. So, it does require some attentive reading. In addition, unless we are really interested in Black Literature, we could easily lose our interest in completing the reading of this very valuable and interesting book.

The book is both autobiographical as well as a scholarly treatment of the issues and problems faced by the Black people (Negro) in the United States.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

T. Deivasigamani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Department of English, Annamalai University
drtdenglishau@gmail.com
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