"The true and stirring stuff of which Romance is born": "Dark Princess" and the revolutionary potential of literary form.
Rather than functioning as propaganda or pastiche, W. E. B. Du Bois's 1928 novel "Dark Princess" actively engages with issues of form and literary tradition in order to question the relationship between fictional modes and social and racial progress. In this novel, Du Bois uses the different literar...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 62 - 77 |
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