 | 1903 - 828 trang
...also a man of fine poetic temperament who is able to step aside from economic discussion to lead you "within the Veil, raising it that you may view faintly...human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls." His economic science is not invalidated by his poetic strain, and the imaginative touch in his work... | |
 | 1903 - 598 trang
...the sons of master and man. . . . I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you may vieV . . . the meaning of its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls." Though deserving of high praise, the book has its serious faults. As one reads there is not only a... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1903 - 268 trang
...black peasantry and have sought to make clear the present relations of the sons of master and man. ... I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you may view . . . the meaning of its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater... | |
 | W. E. B. Du Bois - 1996 - 294 trang
...clear the present relations of the sons of master and man. Leaving, then, the world of the white man, I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested,... | |
 | Robert B. Stepto - 1991 - 252 trang
...the heart of Du Bois's "The Forethought" in The Souls — "Leaving, then, the world of the white man, I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses" — recast in a public rhetoric for matters of race most commonly assigned to the tactical genius of... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - 1995 - 418 trang
...narrator into the Veil. "Leaving ... the world of the white man," Du Bois writes in the "Forethought," "I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you...human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls" (S, 359). His intriguing use of the preposition "within" turns a figure of identity into a geographical... | |
 | Mae Henderson - 1995 - 224 trang
...threatens the dissolution of this exilic space in his description of the volitional act of lifting the veil: "Leaving, then, the white world, I have...it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses," he writes. "And . . . need I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 trang
...constitutes and threatens the dissolution of the nation he describes and to which he himself belongs. "Leaving, then, the white world, I have stepped within...human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls," Du Bois writes. "And . . . need I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh... | |
 | Kadiatu Kanneh - 1998 - 224 trang
...signification of the veil, so DuBois offers a glimpse of Blackness as a consciousness lived out on the borders: Leaving, then, the white world, I have stepped within...it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses. (p. 209) This notion of borders, worlds, physical limits - linked to the production of Africa as a... | |
 | Grant Hermans Cornwell, Eve Walsh Stoddard - 2001 - 372 trang
...and he would step within it, he told his readers in The Souls of Black Folk, so that that they might "view faintly its deeper recesses — the meaning...human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls" ((1903] 1989, xxi). If Du Bois's background helped him articulate the cultural silences that shrouded... | |
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Leaving, then, the white world, I have stepped within the Veil, raising it that you may view faintly its deeper recesses, — the meaning of its religion, the passion of its human sorrow, and the struggle of its greater souls. 
