New perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's The autobiography of an ex-colored man

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments = ix
• Introduction : Biography of an Author, Biography of a Text : James Weldon Johnson's Ultimate American Work / Noelle Morrissette = 1
• 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 = 23
• How The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Became an Unlikely Literary Classic / Michael Nowlin = 41
• Authenticity and Transparency in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Jeff Karem = 64
• PART TWO : 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 = 87
• Blackness Written, Erased, Rewritten : James Weldon Johnson, Teju Cole, and the Palimpsest of Modernity / Daphne Lamothe = 112
• Dead Ambitions and Repeated Interruptions : Economies of Race and Temporality in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man / Bruce Barnhart = 128
• 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 = 147
• The Composer versus the "Perfessor" : Writing Race and (Rag)Time / Lori Brooks = 169
• James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Archived and Live / Noelle Morrissette = 189
• PART FOUR : LEGACIES
• W. E. B. Du Bois, Barack Obama, and the Search for Race : School House Blues / Robert B. Stepto = 213
• Afterword : The Ex-Colored Man for a New Century / Noelle Morrissette ; Amritjit Singh = 230
• Suggested Further Reading = 239
• Contributors = 243
• Index = 245