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Dark Princess: A Rediscovered Book
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ISBN13: 9781515468530
Publisher: Rediscovered Books
Published: Oct 23 2025
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Dark Princess, W. E. B. Du Bois-one of America's greatest thinkers-blends romance, race, and revolution into a sweeping story that spans continents and ideologies. Written during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, this bold and visionary novel explores what it means to love freely and live fearlessly in a world divided by color, class, and empire.
When Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black American doctor, is denied his medical license because of racism, he flees to Europe-and into the arms of Princess Kautilya, a radiant Indian royal devoted to ending colonial rule. Their passionate affair becomes more than love-it becomes a political partnership, uniting the oppressed of every nation in a shared dream of freedom. Together they challenge the old world order, daring to imagine a new one born of justice, equality, and human dignity.
Both sensual and intellectual, Dark Princess is a romantic and revolutionary masterpiece, a work of Afro-diasporic literature that confronts racism, imperialism, and the boundaries of desire. Blending philosophy, politics, and forbidden love, Du Bois creates one of the earliest and most powerful portrayals of Pan-Africanism in fiction.
Rediscovered today, this groundbreaking novel stands beside the works of James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison as a cornerstone of African American literary history-and a call to hope and resistance that still feels urgent and alive.
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