Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil
| Title | Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil |
| Year for Search | 1920 |
| Authors | Du Bois, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt(1868-1963) |
| Secondary Authors | Du Bois, W. E. B. |
| Tertiary Authors | Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt |
| Date Published | 1920 |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace and Howe |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | African American author, Male author |
| Annotation | cken Books, 1969; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (xxv-xxxix). U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1920. Du Bois called it the second of his volume of essays between The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Dusk of Dawn (1940). PSt Eutopia. A collection of essays, poems, and short stories that culminates in a eutopia in the story “The Comet” (253-73), which is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180; and the poem “A Hymn to the Peoples” (275-76) in both of which the importance of racial differences disappears. |
| Additional Publishers | “The Comet” (253-73) is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180. |
| Info Notes | Du Bois called it the second of his volumes of essays between The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Dusk of Dawn (1940). |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The (1868-1963) was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University and was one of the most prominent thinkers in the U. S. in the early twentieth century. |
| Full Text | 1920 Du Bois, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt (1868-1963). Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe. Rpt. New York: Schocken Books, 1969; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (xxv-xxxix). U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1920. Du Bois called it the second of his volumes of essays between The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Dusk of Dawn (1940). PSt Eutopia. A collection of essays, poems, and short stories that culminates in a eutopia in the story “The Comet” (253-73), which is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180; and the poem “A Hymn to the Peoples” (275-76) in both of which the importance of racial differences disappears. The author was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard University and was one of the most prominent thinkers in the U. S. in the early twentieth century. |
