Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-152) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: On Double Consciousness as the Failure of Cross-Caste Romance : Du Bois's Nationalism Re- and De- formed -- 1. A Hymn of Faith Is a Tale of Love : Lohengrin and Platonic Romance in Du Bois's "Of the Coming of John" -- 2. The Queer Gift of Black Folk : Reading Double Consciousness in Du Bois's Detective Fiction -- 3. A Romance of Refusal : Failed Intimacy and Black Fugitivity in "The Princess of the Hither Isles" -- 4. Crossing Caste and Queering Kinship : Du Bois's Utopian Afro-Asiatic Romance -- Epilogue: Strange Intimacies : On Exogamy and Endogamy in the Cross-Caste Romance.
Summary:
"Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction"-- Provided by publisher.
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