The black river [fragments]

Title:: The black river [fragments]
Description:: Loose fragments of a marine saga wherein a fish named Silver moves from brook, to river, to lake; discovers sex; learns the "fish-eat-fish" law of the land (water); encounters worms and other alien creatures; contemplates the existence of God; develops into "himself; a person, an entity; a self-propelling mind"; combats the Superfish; grows old and ugly; and relays the fruits of his experience. See mums312-b236-i020 through i024 for drafts and final versions.
Author:: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Date:: [ca. 1955]
Format:: Manuscripts
Genre:: Fables
Fragments (object portions)
Location:: Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 236 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:: Series 14. Short Stories and Fables
Subjects:: Allegories
Life cycle, Human, in literature
Extent:: 12 p.
Link to Item:: http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b236-i025
Terms of Use:: All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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