Description
Johnson's 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. New Perspectives contains fresh essays that analyze the book's 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.
Contributors: Bruce Barnhart, Lori Brooks, Ben Glaser, Jeff Karem, Daphne Lamothe, Noelle Morrissette, Michael Nowlin, Lawrence J. Oliver, Diana Paulin, Amritjit Singh, Robert B. Stepto.
About the Author
Noelle Morrisette is an associate professor and class of 1952 distinguished scholar of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the author of James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes.
Reviews
"Given the political shift that has since taken place, with all its quotidian and spectacular terrors, a volume that posits readings of The Autobiography focused not on whether Johnson's hopes for a remade society can ever come to pass but, rather, on the novel's essential dualism, which keeps open the possibility of national and global transformation, is especially welcome. In its critical variety and acuity, New Approaches to James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man assists readers-already living in the volume's future-in holding fast to "the racial futurity" at the heart of Johnson's literary and political project." - ALH Online Review, XIX.1
Book Information
ISBN 9780820356839
Author Noelle Morrissette
Format Paperback
Page Count 260
Imprint University of Georgia Press
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Weight(grams) 403g