The Souls of Black Folk

ISBN-13: 9780393973938 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str.

W. E. B. Du Bois; Terri Hume Oliver; Jr. Henry Louis Gates

Opis

"Contexts" presents a fascinating collection of political and biographical documents related to the text. Also included are eighteen photographs that accompanied Du Bois's 1901 article "The Negro As He Really Is. "Criticism" offers thirteen contemporary and recent assessments of Du Bois andSouls, rounding out the picture of this enduring work.

O autorze

Henry L. Gates earned his MA and PhD in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge, and his B.A. summa cum laude in English literature from Yale University. Before coming to Harvard, he taught at Yale, Cornell, and Duke. He was recently named the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard. He also is the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.