1.UniTS - Am. Lit. 3 - DuBois + Harlem Renaissance

Instructor: Dr. Chiara Patrizi

2022/2023

Angloamerican Literature III

Southern Literature & Race Issues in the Late XIX Century

Toni Morrison, "Living Memory," interview by Paul Gilroy, 1988

Modern life begins with slavery. [...] In terms of confronting the problems of where the world is now, black women had to deal with ‘post-modern’ problems in the nineteenth century and earlier. These things had to be addressed by black people a long time ago. Certain kinds of dissolution, the loss of and the need to reconstruct certain kind of stability. Certain kinds of madness, deliberately going mad in order [...] "not to lose your mind."

Black Studies in the 20th Century

W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

Black Studies in the 20th Century

• Born on February 23, 1868 (the year Congress guaranteed male black suffrage)

• Died on August 27, 1963 (the day before the March for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, DC)

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

• Scholar (historian and sociologist), writer, editor, and civil rights pioneer
• Among the founders of: the Niagara Movement (1905) and of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, 1909)
• Editor of The Crisis

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

• The Study of the Negro Problems (1898)
• The Philadelphia Negro (1899)
• The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
• "The Talented Tenth" (1903)
• “Criteria of Negro Art,” The Crisis, Oct. 26, 1926.
• Black Reconstruction in America (1935)

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

• Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil (1920)
• Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940)
• The Autobiography of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (1968)

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

Major Concepts

The Veil

Double consciousness

The color-line

The Souls of Black Folk

The Veil

Double consciousness

The color-line

African American Art in the Harlem Renaissance

"The Backlash Blues"

"I, Too"

Langston Hughes