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W.E.B.DuBois' " 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 bifurcation of black life and culture; but one
of the most striking themes is that of "the veil." The veil
provides a link between the fourteen seemingly unconnected
essays that make up "The Souls of Black Folk". Mentioned at
least once in most of the essays, it means that, "the Negro
is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with
second sight in this American world, -a world which yields
him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see
himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a
peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense
of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.
The veil is a metaphor for the separation and invisibility
of black life and existence in America and is a......

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