{"id":52329,"date":"2017-07-21T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52329"},"modified":"2017-07-21T19:05:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:05:54","slug":"new-perspectives-on-james-weldon-johnsons-the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52329","title":{"rendered":"New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson\u2019s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/index.php\/books\/index\/new_perspectives_on_james_weldon_johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Georgia Press<\/a><br \/>\n2017-07-15<br \/>\n272 pages<br \/>\nTrim size: 6 x 9<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-5097-4<br \/>\nEbook ISBN: 978-0-8203-5096-7<\/p>\n<p>Edited by<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.uncg.edu\/people\/faculty\/morrissette.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Noelle Morrissette<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina, Greensboro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugapress.org\/index.php\/books\/index\/new_perspectives_on_james_weldon_johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41ussBzZYZL.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Weldon_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Weldon Johnson<\/a> (1871\u20131938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harlem Renaissance<\/a>, and first African American executive of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People\">NAACP<\/a>. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson\u2019s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man<\/em><\/a> is considered one of the foundational works of twentieth-century African American literature, and its themes and forms have been taken up by other writers, from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Ellison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Ellison<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tejucole.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teju Cole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s novel provocatively engages with political and cultural strains still prevalent in American discourse today, and it remains in print over a century after its initial publication.<em> New Perspectives<\/em> contains fresh essays that analyze the book\u2019s reverberations, the contexts within which it was created and received, the aesthetic and intellectual developments of its author, and its continuing influence on American literature and global culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson\u2019s novel provocatively engages with political and cultural strains still prevalent in American discourse today, and it remains in print over a century after its initial publication. &#8220;New Perspectives&#8221; contains fresh essays that analyze the book\u2019s reverberations, the contexts within which it was created and received, the aesthetic and intellectual developments of its author, and its continuing influence on American literature and global culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,1196,8,6462,20],"tags":[1307,26409,463],"class_list":["post-52329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-james-weldon-johnson","tag-noelle-morrissette","tag-university-of-georgia-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52329","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=52329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53701,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52329\/revisions\/53701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}