Article: Paul Laurence Dunbar and Turn-into-the-20th-Century African American Dualism.

Paul Gilroy has powerfully claimed that the notion of double consciousness in which the black subject "ever feels his twoness" was used by W. E. B. Du Bois to figure a diasporic, and sometimes transatlantic black modernity expressing the ambivalent location of people of African descent simultaneously within and beyond what is known as "the West" (111-45). Certainly, Du Bois's articulation of dualism has remained a powerful trope available to a wide range of artists and intellectuals both inside and outside of the United States down to the present. However, to understand why Du Bois's formulation of the concept has had such force, one has to examine its relationship to ...

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