The Quest Of The Silver Fleece - Bois, W. E. B. Du
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The Quest of the Silver Fleece by W. E. B. Du Bois is a compelling blend of romance, realism, and social commentary. First published in 1911, it tells the story of Zora and Bles, two young African Americans striving to overcome poverty, prejudice, and exploitation in the post-Reconstruction South. The "Silver Fleece," symbolizing cotton and economic power, becomes a metaphor for both opportunity and oppression as Du Bois examines race, class, and ambition in a society built on inequality. Through vivid storytelling and powerful moral insight, he portrays the struggles of Black individuals…mehr

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The Quest of the Silver Fleece by W. E. B. Du Bois is a compelling blend of romance, realism, and social commentary. First published in 1911, it tells the story of Zora and Bles, two young African Americans striving to overcome poverty, prejudice, and exploitation in the post-Reconstruction South. The "Silver Fleece," symbolizing cotton and economic power, becomes a metaphor for both opportunity and oppression as Du Bois examines race, class, and ambition in a society built on inequality. Through vivid storytelling and powerful moral insight, he portrays the struggles of Black individuals seeking education, self-reliance, and dignity amid systemic injustice. This novel remains one of Du Bois's most significant literary works, combining his intellectual brilliance with a deeply human narrative that foreshadows the social and political themes of his later writings.
Autorenporträt
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868-1963) was a world historian, sociologist, journalist, novelist, civil rights leader, and Pan-Africanist. He was the first Black American to earn a doctorate at Harvard and was one of the founders of the Niagara Movement, which became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He also founded the NAACP journal The Crisis and edited it for nearly a quarter of a century. Du Bois was a critic of Booker T. Washington, whom he felt was too willing to compromise about Black rights. A published writer as a teenager, Du Bois wrote prolifically until his death at ninety-five. His 1903 Souls of Black Folk is a founding text of the civil rights movement. In it, as well as in other books including the Dusk of Dawn, he used personal experience as a persuasive tool. Controversial, articulate, and impassioned, he had wide-ranging influence in the United States and around the world. Du Bois's communist beliefs led to conflicts with the US government in the 1950s, and he eventually settled in Ghana, where he died. Nonetheless, his attachment to his birthplace, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was a constant in his life, and his thinking on a broad range of issues has gained new attention in the twenty-first century. Each volume of David Levering Lewis's biography of Du Bois won a Pulitzer Prize.