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self-conscious manhood

French translation: le désir d'arriver à la maturité et à la connaissance de soi

19:23 Jun 1, 2004
English to French translations [Non-PRO]
Philosophy
English term or phrase: self-conscious manhood
One senses in jesse little of Gates' "elective affinity" and a good deal of W.E.B. Du Bois' tragic sense of "two-ness," the inescapable struggle between being "an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two warring ideals in one dark body," as Du Bois put it in his classic formulation. Jesse wants to live by Du Bois' contention that "the history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self."
Krystrad
Local time: 14:50
French translation:le désir d'arriver à la maturité et à la connaissance de soi
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4 +1être conscient de son statut d' homme à part entière
Christiane Bujold
4l'àge d'homme conscient de son image
Marie Christine Cramay
3le désir d'arriver à la maturité et à la connaissance de soi
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
être conscient de son statut d' homme à part entière


Explanation:
Self-concious : conscience de soi
manhood : caractère viril, âge d'homme, le fait d'être un homme

....reconnaître son statut d'homme

Christiane Bujold
Canada
Local time: 08:50
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

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l'àge d'homme conscient de son image


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A améliorer sùrement.

Marie Christine Cramay
Italy
Local time: 14:50
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le désir d'arriver à la maturité et à la connaissance de soi


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