James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: A Norton Critical Edition - Norton Critical Editions James Weldon Johnson Critical edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Publisher Marketing: An unusually rich selection of Backgrounds and Sources focuses on Johnson s life; the autobiographical inspirations forThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; the cultural history of the era in which Johnson lived and wrote; the noteworthy reception history for the 1912, 1927, and 1948 editions; and related writings by Johnson. In addition to Johnson, contributors include Eugene Levy, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcy A. Sacks, Carl Van Vechten, Blanche W. Knopf, Victor Weybright, and Cecile Fishbein, among others. The seven critical essays and interpretations in this volume speak toThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man s major themes, among them irony, authorship, passing, and parody. Early assessments (1930s 70s) are provided by Robert A. Bone, Robert Fleming, and Robert B. Stepto. Recent contributors are Jacqueline Goldsby, Samira Kawash, Christina L. Ruotolo, and M. Giulia Fabi. A chronology of Johnson s life and work and a selected bibliography are also included " Review Citations:

Booklist 02/01/1992 pg. 991 (EAN 9780679727538, Paperback)

Library Journal 09/15/1996 (EAN 9780964559370, Analog Audio Cassette)

Contributor Bio:  Johnson, James Weldon James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a prolific writer and legendary civil rights activist who produced several novels, a pioneering work of cultural history, the first major anthology of black poetry, and numerous treatises on race relations. He served as U. S. consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua and as secretary of the NAACP"."Contributor Bio:  Harper, Phillip Brian About the Author: Phillip Brian Harper is Associate Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of Framing the Margins. Contributor Bio:  Goldsby, Jacqueline Jacqueline Goldsby is Professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature, winner of the MLA s William S. Scarborough Prize, and of the forthcoming Birth of the Cool: African American Literary Culture of the 1940s and 1950s.