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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" is a monumental work of fiction that explores the complex intersectionality of identity and histo...
Recorded October 18, 2021Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of five poetry collections, including The Gospel of Barbecue, Red Clay Suite, and The Age of P...
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers in conversation about her breath-taking debut novel, The Love Songs Of W.E.B Du Bois, which chronicles the journey of multiple generations of one American...
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Louis Du Bois (21 October 1626 – 1696) was a Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the town of New Paltz, New York.
Aug 28, 2021 · 'The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois' takes an intimate look at race, feminism, love, and family. And then there's Ailey. She is inquisitive, judgmental, distrusting, and filled with shame,...
Aug 24, 2021 · One of the many marvels of “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” is the protean quality of Jeffers’s voice. Sweeping back and forth across the years, her narration shifts nimbly to reflect the tenor of the times — from the shared legends of tribal people to the candid realism of the modern era.
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois. The 2020 National Book Award–nominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing; Sing, Unburied, Sing; and The Water Dancer—that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial ...