New perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man / edited by Noelle Morrissette.

Other author Morrissette, Noelle editor.
Format Book
PublicationAthens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Descriptionx, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents 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. 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2016049000
ISBN9780820350974 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN0820350974 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book

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Joyner General Stacks PS3519 .O2625 A9535 2017 ✔ Available Place Hold