Reimagining the "Pythian Madness" of Souls: W. E. B. Du Bois's Poetics of African American Faith
This essay offers a close reading of the tenth chapter of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, which is often referenced but rarely unpacked for its careful examination of the relationship between religion and African American modernity. I argue that Du Bois's encounter with the rhy...
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| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2013
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2013, Volume: 1, Issue: 3, Pages: 324-347 |
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| Summary: | This essay offers a close reading of the tenth chapter of W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, which is often referenced but rarely unpacked for its careful examination of the relationship between religion and African American modernity. I argue that Du Bois's encounter with the rhythms of southern African American religion during the late nineteenth century moves him into a different time, which he is only able to articulate through mythology. As a result, Du Bois constructs a discourse that subjects the nation to a collective psychoanalysis by prodding it to bring Africa into its metaphysics of time and space. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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