Dark princess
Subtitle: a romance
By: by W.E.B. Du Bois ; with an introduction by Claudia Tate.
Publisher: Banner Books; University Press of Mississippi
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Jackson, MS
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction; Women -- India -- Fiction; Racism -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The problem of "the color line," W.E.B. Du Bois's ever-present polemical theme, is at the core of this novel of sensual love, radical politics, and the quest for racial justice. Originally published in 1928, Dark Princess has a fantastical storyline, heavy with propagandist overtones. Du Bois depicts 1920s America as a racist nation primed for radical protest and terrorism. Matthew Townes, the protagonist, is a medical student expelled because his race bars him from the required course in obstetrics in a white hospital. Self-exiled in Berlin after his political idealism is corrupted, Townes falls in love with Princess Kautilya, daughter of a maharajah, and joins her international team in which people of color unite against white imperialism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.