{"id":27922,"date":"2013-01-29T02:20:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27922"},"modified":"2013-01-29T02:21:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:21:15","slug":"intertextual-links-reading-uncle-tom%e2%80%99s-cabin-in-james-weldon-johnson%e2%80%99s-the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27922","title":{"rendered":"Intertextual Links: Reading Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin in James Weldon Johnson\u2019s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/lit.2013.0004\" target=\"_blank\">Intertextual Links: Reading Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin in James Weldon Johnson\u2019s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/college_literature\" target=\"_blank\">College Literature<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/college_literature\/toc\/lit.40.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 40, Number 1<\/a>, Spring 2013<br \/>\npages 121-138<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/lit.2013.0004\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/lit.2013.0004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bellarmine.lmu.edu\/english\/facultyandstaff\/robinmiskolcze\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robin Miskolcze<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though literary critics of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Weldon_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">James Weldon Johnson\u2019s<\/a> 1912 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22648\" target=\"_blank\">The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man<\/a><\/em> convincingly regard the novel as reminiscent of the slave narrative, few readers have considered the scope and significance of Johnson\u2019s reference to a major best-selling literary predecessor: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Beecher Stowe\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin\" target=\"_blank\">Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/a><\/em>. Johnson\u2019s explicit reference to Stowe\u2019s 1852 novel early in his story solicits a reading of the intertextual links between the two novels. Specifically, I explore how Johnson\u2019s narrator and Stowe\u2019s Uncle Tom are connected by the symbol of the coin necklace, a gift from white men that carries a paternalistic force. In addition to Uncle Tom, I also analyze the similarities between Johnson\u2019s narrator and Stowe\u2019s biracial character, Adolph. Comparing Johnson\u2019s and Stowe\u2019s narrative choices for their biracial characters illustrates the trajectory of cultural politics involved in defining race and normative sexuality from the pre-Civil War years to the early twentieth century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intertextual Links: Reading Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin in James Weldon Johnson\u2019s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man College Literature Volume 40, Number 1, Spring 2013 pages 121-138 DOI: 10.1353\/lit.2013.0004 Robin Miskolcze, Associate Professor of English Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California Though literary critics of James Weldon Johnson\u2019s 1912 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man convincingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[3812,481,1307,13519],"class_list":["post-27922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-college-literature","tag-harriet-beecher-stowe","tag-james-weldon-johnson","tag-robin-miskolcze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}