Samuel O. Doku

Cosmopolitanism in the Fictive Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois (eBook, ePUB)

Toward the Humanization of a Revolutionary Art

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This booktraces 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 originated from a single source, a claim authenticated by anthropologists and the Human Genome Project. This book breaks new ground by demonstrating the fashion in which the variants of cosmopolitanism become a profound theme in Du Bois's contribution to fiction. In general, cosmopolitanism claims that people belong to a single community informed by common moral values, function through a shared economic nomenclature, and are part of political systems grounded in mutual respect. This book addresses Du Bois's works as important additions to the academy and makes a significant contribution to literature by first demonstrating the way in which fiction could be utilized in discussing historical accounts in order to reach a global audience. "The Coming of John", The Quest of the Silver Fleece, Dark Princess: A Romance, and The Black Flame, an important trilogy published sequentially as The Ordeal of Mansart, Mansart Builds a School, and Worlds of Color are grounded in historical occurrences and administer as social histories providing commentary on Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, African American leadership, school desegregation, the Pan-African movement, imperialism, and colonialism in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498518321
• Artikelnr.: 44832110

Autorenporträt

By Samuel O. Doku

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: African Antiquity and the African Diaspora in Context Part
One Chapter 1: Classical Humanism in The Quest of the Silver Fleece and The
Souls of Black Folk Chapter 2: Good Character Challenges Hegemony in The
Quest of the Silver Fleece Chapter 3: Heuristic Appraisal of Avant-Garde
Cosmopolitanism in The Quest of the Silver Fleece Chapter 4: Discrepant
Cosmopolitanism in the Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois in Dark Princess: A
Romance Chapter 5: Culture as a Universal Symbol of Cosmopolitanism in Dark
Princess: A Romance Chapter 6: Beyond the Color Line: Black Cosmopolitanism
in The Black Flame Part Two Chapter 7: Genesis of Traditional
Pan-Africanism and Its Aftermath Chapter 8: A Botched Continental
Pan-Africanism Master Plan and Friends of W.E.B. Du Bois in Africa and the
Caribbean Chapter 9: W.E.B. Du Bois, the Inspirations of Gandhi, and the
Pan-Asian Connection Chapter 10: Barack Obama Epitomizes Du Bois' Vision in
Dark Princess: Nkrumah and Du Bois Emerge as Unheralded Cosmopolitans
Epilogue: The Great Redeemer