This ultimate challenge is highlighted in Dubois' novel "The Souls of Black Folks" in which he shows that there is not one but two souls that each African American has inside of him. ... In his novel, Dubois plays on the idea of identity and self-awareness (Dubois and Griffin 2005). ... During the Harlem Renaissance the issue of race became a central issue as "the first movement in which public discussions about the representation of black people in fiction reach a crisis point" (Bernard 408). ... The importance of this is to understand that when reading a novel su...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is only the story of a strong woman, a tortured man and three sons who lived hemmed in by thin cotton and ragged history in northeastern Alabama, in a time when blacks and whites found reason to hate each other and a whole lot of people could not stand themselves. ... One of Bragg's favorite writers is the late Eudora Welty who was also a Pulitzer Prize winner for her novel "The Optimist's Daughter." ...

• Word Count: 4108
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• Grade Level: High School