Title New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / edited by Noelle Morrissette

Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) Contents 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 / Lawrence J. Oliver -- How The autobiography of an ex-colored man became an unlikely literary classic / Michael Nowlin -- Authenticity and transparency in The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Jeff Karem -- Relational tropes: transnationalism, futurity, and the ex-colored man. Part two. The futurity of miscegenation: James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man and Pauline Hopkins's Of one blood / Diana Paulin -- Blackness written, erased, rewritten: James Weldon Johnson, Teju Cole, and the Palimpsest of modernity / Daphne Lamothe -- Dead ambitions and repeated interruptions: economies of race and temporality in The autobiography of an ex-coloured man / Bruce Barnhart -- Part three Poetics: sound, affect, and the archive. The autobiography as ars poetica: satire and rhythmic exegesis in "Saint Peter relates an incident" / Ben Glaser -- The composer versus the "perfessor": writing race and (rag)time / Lori Brooks -- James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man, archived and live / Noelle Morrissette -- Part four. Legacies. W.E.B. Du Bois, Barack Obama, and the search for race: school house blues / Robert B. Stepto -- Afterword. the ex-colored man for a new century Summary 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 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is considered one of the foundational works of twentieth-century African American literature, and its themes and forms have been taken up by other writers, from Ralph Ellison to Teju Cole. Johnson's novel provocatively engages with political and cultural strains still prevalent in American discourse today, and it remains in print over a century after its initial publication. New Perspectives contains fresh essays that analyze the book's reverberations, the contexts within which it was created and received, the aesthetic and intellectual developments of its author, and its continued relevance in American literature and global culture. -- from back cover Notes Print version record Subject Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. Autobiography of an ex-colored man. Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. Autobiography of an ex-colored man SUBJECT Autobiography of an ex-colored man (Johnson, James Weldon) fast Subject African American men in literature. Race in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African American men in literature Race in literature Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book Author Nowlin, Michael Karem, Jeff Paulin, Diana. Lamothe, Daphne Barnhart, Bruce Glaser, Ben Brooks, Lori Stepto, Robert B. Morrissette, Noelle. Singh, Amritjit, contributor. ISBN 9780820350967 0820350966

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