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James Weldon Johnson and the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Musician
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 249–274.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Cristina L. Ruotolo Duke University Press 2000 Cristina L. James Weldon Johnson and the Autobiography
Ruotolo of an Ex-Colored Musician
6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 11 of223 In all the critical attention paid...
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The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2017
...-century slave narratives, turns to the early twentieth century. This periodization of black literary criticism is a welcome innovation. Beginning with the multiple contexts for reading race in and around James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Larkin traces a century of black...
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Writing the Old Negro in a New Century: James Weldon Johnson and the Uses of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 March 2017
... about representing slavery in black cultural production. While Alain Locke and other critics called for literature to portray the Negro of the new day and discard the old representations, James Weldon Johnson understood the Old Negro’s enduring importance to modern black self-conception. His 1912 novel...
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Restaging the Racial Contract: James Weldon Johnson's Signatory Strategies
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Jennifer L. Schulz Duke University Press 2002 Jennifer L. Restaging the Racial Contract: James Weldon
Schulz Johnson’s Signatory Strategies
In his autobiography Along This Way (1933), James
Weldon Johnson describes his confrontation with a white man in a bi...
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James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 841–843.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Gayle Wald Book Reviews 841
James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes. By Noelle Morrissette. Iowa City:
Univ. of Iowa Press. 2013. xiii, 243 pp. Paper, $45.00.
Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem. By Jean...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">James</span> <span class="search-highlight">Weldon</span> <span class="search-highlight">Johnson's</span> Modern Soundscapes Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature
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“Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in African American Literature
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 December 2020
... into a range of aesthetic experiences. This can be observed in the Beethovenian ekphrasis featured in prose works by James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison—four writers whose works have also been considered indebted to blues and jazz musical influences and who approach...
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O Cant: Singing the Race Music of Jean Toomer's Cane
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 725–752.
Published: 01 December 2010
...-of-the-century American theater, Tin Pan Alley and the music industry, anthropology and ethnography in the southern United States, and Toomer's debts or relations to other writers of the Harlem Renaissance, among them James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, and Langston Hughes. © 2010 by Duke...
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Touching a Button
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 31–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the electric chair at Sing Sing prison alongside James Weldon Johnson's 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man , the essay argues that these texts invite us to recast early twentieth-century black resistance in electrical terms, terms that expose racial violence as a function of technological...
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Richard Wright and the Black Metropolis: From the Great Migration to the Urban Planning Novel
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 653–680.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Bo McMillan Abstract Early twentieth-century Black literature on the city from the likes of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen pondered questions of what it meant to be Black and urbane and also how to reformulate Black identity from a new position removed from the violent...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 419–422.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... Cristina Ruotolo’s Sounding Real confesses its debt to “the work of ‘new musicologists’ on gender and sexuality” as early as its second footnote (141). Throughout, it assumes that the realist and naturalist novelists it revisits—Kate Chopin, Harold Frederic, Willa Cather, James Weldon Johnson...
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Black Madness::Mad Blackness Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 769–773.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Tyler’s Disabilities of the Color Line provides a meticulous and richly contextualized literary history of key African American writers from the antebellum period to the present (David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Charles W. Chesnutt, and James Weldon Johnson) who have engaged...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 633–640.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of curiosity.”
The “New Negro” in the Old World: Culture and Performance in James Weldon Johnson,
Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen. By Lena Ahlin. Stockholm: Lund University. 2006. 205
pp. $79.50.
This study examines how the concept of the New Negro was articulated in the
United States in and through...
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Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 439–440.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of ways in which I find myself stunned by Siobhan
Somerville’s Queering the Color Line. Not only does she offer some of the
finest readings of Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, and Pauline Hopkins
that I have ever...
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Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 153–155.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to establishing and maintaining democracy and community, Toth’s bridging of Nancy with Emmanuel Levinas, as some others do, should make his study of American culture, character, and thought especially interesting. Toth sees The Jazz Singer and James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man...
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Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 438–439.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of ways in which I find myself stunned by Siobhan
Somerville’s Queering the Color Line. Not only does she offer some of the
finest readings of Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, and Pauline Hopkins
that I have ever...
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The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion Melville and the Idea of Blackness: Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century America
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2016
... centers on texts that obliquely respond to conflicts in the Caribbean and the Philippines and, paradoxically, draw their aesthetic innovation from such veiled encounters. As Gruesser’s finely researched readings of Sutton E. Griggs (chapter 2), James Weldon Johnson (chapter 4), and Pauline Hopkins (coda...
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The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977–1993 the Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 622–624.
Published: 01 September 2015
... similarities alongside historical differences.
Bromell finds African American texts equally instructive on the chal-
lenge of practicing democracy in the age of globalization. Frederick Doug-
lass, James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. DuBois, and Malcolm X help Americans
“balance their national...
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The Black Skyscraper
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 531–561.
Published: 01 September 2013
... . 1907 . The American Scene . New York : Harper . Johnson James Weldon . 1922 . The Book of American Negro Poetry . New York : Harcourt, Brace . ———. 1931 . The Book of American Negro Poetry . Rev. ed. New York : Harcourt, Brace . ———. 1933 . Along the Way: The Autobiography...
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Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890–1940 The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2019
... at skyscrapers they never reference Ellis Island or the Statue, even when James Weldon Johnson invokes a “Sphinxlike enchantress guarding the entrance to the world of wealth and opportunity” (60). Lindner grants that skyscrapers were invented in Chicago, to which city his phrasing condescends: “New York is where...
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Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 853–855.
Published: 01 December 2015
...-
graph transmission and commercial photography spurs literary experiments
with grammar and syntax, opening up new social and erotic possibilities in the
way technology interrupts and reroutes the self-sameness of individual con-
sciousness. For James Weldon Johnson, the inscriptive technology...
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