![]() ![]() In particular, the definite article “The” is not accidental and may insinuate the author’s insistence on specificity. Right from the start, the technique of colloquial English language divulges his intention to open up his argumentation in both the white and black audience. ![]() Through the title, The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois devises an effective umbrella under which his arguments can easily be unfolded. A mixture of techniques is consequently employed, aiming to conceptualise the unconscious and familiarise the readers with what they find unfamiliar. This is the exact point African-Americans were subjected to, along with historical, cultural and political revelations. In these terms, Du Bois cautiously steps within the “Veil” of his racial segregation, a capitalized term he coins to help readers visualize the obscure barrier that separates the two worlds, and attempts to decipher the subliminal fluctuations of a blackness vastly treated as a flaw. Du Bois’s work The Souls of Black Folk (1903) attempts to capture the quintessential twentieth century problem “of the color-line” (713), that is the problem of racial belonging and identification. ![]()
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