A Gift of the Spirit: Reading the Souls of Black Folk

by Eugene Victor Wolfenstein

Book Overview

In A Gift of the Spirit, Eugene Victor Wolfenstein offers a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk aimed at demonstrating its organic unity and coherence. He takes as his interpretive key the experience of the color line with which Du Bois's narrative begins--the incident from his youth in which a white girl refused his offer of a visiting card. Wolfenstein contends that this instance of misrecognition makes visible an aesthetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801473535
• ISBN13: 9780801473531
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher