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New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's ""The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man""
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson's novel The Autobiog...
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Biography of an Author, Biography of a Text: James Weldon Johnson's Ultimate American Work; Part One: Cultures of Reading, Cultures of Writing: Canons and Authenticity; "Stepping across the Confines of Language and Race": Brander Matthews, James Weldon Johnson, and Racial Cosmopolitanism; How The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Became an Unlikely Literary Classic; Authenticity and Transparency in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.
- Part Two: Relational Tropes: Transnationalism, Futurity, and the Ex-Colored ManThe Futurity of Miscegenation: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood; Blackness Written, Erased, Rewritten: James Weldon Johnson, Teju Cole, and the Palimpsest of Modernity; Dead Ambitions and Repeated Interruptions: Economies of Race and Temporality in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man; Part Three: Poetics: Sound, Affect, and the Archive; The Autobiography as Ars Poetica: Satire and Rhythmic Exegesis in "Saint Peter Relates an Incident."
- The Composer versus the "Perfessor": Writing Race and (Rag)TimeJames Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Archived and Live; Part Four: Legacies; W.E.B. Du Bois, Barack Obama, and the Search for Race: School House Blues; Afterword: The Ex-Colored Man for a New Century; Suggested Further Reading; Contributors; Index.