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Pre-Owned Politics in the African-American Novel : James Weldon Johnson W. E. B. Du Bois Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison 9780313274718 /

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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Intimate and Authentic Economies: The American Self-Made Man from Douglass to Chaplin (Paperback)

The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories to include the writings of Frederick Douglass Horatio Alger and James Weldon Johnson and the... more

Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry (Paperback) by Dana Gioia David Mason Meg Schoerke

This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection... more

Dover Thrift Editions: Black History: African American Poetry : An Anthology 1773-1927 (Paperback)

Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes. Introduction. more

Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures: The Hammers of Creation (Paperback)

In The Hammers of Creation Eric J. Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African-American novels of the early twentieth century: James Weldon Johnson s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man Zora Neale Hurston s... more