The Different Conceptions Of The Veil In The Souls Of Black Folk
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"For now we see through a glass, darkly"
-Isiah 25:7
W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk, a collection of autobiographical
and historical essays contains many themes. There is the theme of souls and
their attainment of consciousness, the theme of double consciousness and the
duality and ....
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.... of black life and existence in America and is a reoccurring theme
in books abo ut black life in America.
Du Bois's veil metaphor, "In those somber forests of his striving his
own soul rose before him, and he saw himself, -darkly as though through a
veil"Footnote2, is a allusion to Saint Paul's line in Isiah 25:7, "For now we
see through a glass, darkly."Footnote3 Saint Paul's use of the veil in Isiah and
later in Second Corinthians is similar to Du Bois's use of the metaph ....
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