'It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's selfthrough the eyes of others.' For Adell, W. E. B. Du Bois's famous articulation of the 'twoness' ofblack Americans is the key to understanding the 'double bind' which afflicts contemporaryAfrican-American literary theory. . . . [The book] demands and deserves recognition as a cogentintervention. - Yearbook of English Studies
