1. Booker T. Washington and Duboi
So to view Dubois" narrative we must first turn the page back, as it were, to Booker T. Washington, and look at his autobiography as the progenitive narrative force in the discussion. ... What, then, is the narrative of Up From Slavery about? ... This is Washington's story; he is driven by the "responsibility of freedom" and thus takes a back seat in his own narrative. ... (p. 81, DuBois) Ultimately, then, it is DuBois who ends up criticizing Washington because Washington cannot see himself - he isn't in his own narrative, so to speak, he's in a compromised narrative...
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