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Author Oliver, Lawrence.

Title New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's ""The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man""

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (206 pages)
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Contents 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.
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Subject Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. Autobiography of an ex-colored man.
African American men in literature.
African American men in literature.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Nowlin, Michael.
Karem, Jeff.
Paulin, Diana.
Lamothe, Daphne.
Barnhart, Bruce.
Glaser, Ben.
Brooks, Lori.
Stepto, R. F. T.
Morrissette, Noelle.
Other Form: Print version: Oliver, Lawrence. New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's ""The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"". Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2017 9780820350974
ISBN 9780820350967 (electronic book)
0820350966 (electronic book)