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Reinventing the epic with 'The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois'
Listen to the episodeAn epic novel about heroic Black women, written as a deliberate reimagining of the epic tradition — which Jeffers argues has historically centred white men — to tell a different kind of story.
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