Book
The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
Record details
- ISBN: 006294293X
- ISBN: 9780062942937
- ISBN: 9780062942937
- ISBN: 006294293X
- Physical Description: xiv, 797 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Oprah's book club 2021" -- Book jacket. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Family tree -- Song. Dream and fracture -- The definitions of siddity -- Song. What is best -- Permission to be excused -- Jingle bells, damnit -- Song. Deep country -- Creatures in the garden -- Happy birthday -- Pecan trees and various miscellanea -- An altered story -- Song. Brother-man magic -- We sing your praises high -- Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, goddamnit -- In this spot -- Feminism, womanism, or whatever -- This bitter earth -- You made me love you -- Don't let me lose this dream -- A change is gonna come -- Do right woman, do right man -- The debate -- Founder's Day -- The dirty thirty -- Reunion -- I'm hungry -- All extraordinary human beings -- Nguzo Saba -- Song. For you to love -- The night I fell in love -- Till my baby comes home -- My sensitivity gets in the way -- A house is not a home -- The other side of the world -- Keeping the tune -- Whatever gets you over -- I need my own car -- Shower and pray -- You can be proud -- Song. Which negroes do you know? -- Mammies, or, How they show out in Harlem -- Umoja, youngblood -- Song. The peculiar institution -- Plural first person -- The Thrilla in Manila -- Witness my hand -- My Black female time -- Song. Who remembers this? -- Any more white folks -- Mama's bible -- Like Agatha Christie -- Not hasty -- Every strength -- The voices of children. |
| Summary, etc.: | The great scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story - and the song - of America itself. |
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 57 of 57 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tolland Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 57 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Tolland Public Library | F JEF (Text) | 34051152749019 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
