id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
expositions-2438	none	Of the Coming of John: W.E.B. Du Bois, Lohengrin, and the Marriage Function of Truth	2019	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8044	332	64	Imagining John Jones and John Henderson as blood-brothers gives us another angle from which to appreciate the symbolic value Du Bois ascribes to Lohengrin in “Of the Coming of John.” The fact that John Jones hums that hymn of Faith in advance of his suicide is Du Bois’s way of suggesting that John has found that Something worth trusting in, that something worth dying for.6 In the famous conclusion of Chapter 6, “Of the Training of Black Men,” Du Bois provides what I think is a compelling rationale for that faith.	cache/expositions-2438.pdf	txt/expositions-2438.txt