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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Biography of an Author, Biography of a Text: James Weldon Johnson’s Ultimate American Work
Part One: Cultures of Reading, Cultures of Writing: Canons and Authenticity
“Stepping across the Confines of Language and Race”: Brander Matthews, James Weldon Johnson, and Racial Cosmopolitanism
How The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Became an Unlikely Literary Classic
Authenticity and Transparency in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Part Two: Relational Tropes: Transnationalism, Futurity, and the Ex-Colored Man
The Futurity of Miscegenation: James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood
Blackness Written, Erased, Rewritten: James Weldon Johnson, Teju Cole, and the Palimpsest of Modernity
Dead Ambitions and Repeated Interruptions: Economies of Race and Temporality in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Part Three: Poetics: Sound, Affect, and the Archive
The Autobiography as Ars Poetica: Satire and Rhythmic Exegesis in “Saint Peter Relates an Incident”
The Composer versus the “Perfessor”: Writing Race and (Rag)Time
James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Archived and Live
Part Four: Legacies
W. E. B. Du Bois, Barack Obama, and the Search for Race: School House Blues
Afterword: The Ex-Colored Man for a New Century
Suggested Further Reading
Contributors
Index
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