The Souls of Black Folk | Critical Overview
In his introduction to the 1989 edition of The Souls of Black Folk, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. asserts that the book ‘‘has served as a veritable touchstone of African-American culture for every successive generation of black scholars since 1903.’’ He goes on to say that ‘‘Du Bois’ contemporaries, and subsequent scholars, generally have agreed that two of the uncanny effects of The Souls are that it is poetic in its attention to detail, and that it succeeds, somehow, in ‘narrating’ the nation of Negro Americans at the turn of the century, articulating for the...
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