James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529)Posted in Literary/Artistic Criticism, Live Events, Media Archive, United States on 2011-12-14 22:41Z by Steven |
James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex–Colored Man: A Century Later (Session 529)
Modern Language Association
127th MLA Annual Convention
2012-01-05 through 2012-01-05
Washington State Convention Center
Seattle, Washingon
Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
Presiding
Gene Andrew Jarrett, Associate Professor of English
Boston University
Speakers
1. “Music, Race, and Nation in Johnson’s Autobiography”
Erich Nunn, Assistant Professor of English
Auburn University
2. “An Old Negro in a New Century: Locating the Southern Slave in Johnson’s Autobiography”
Adena Spingarn
Harvard University
3. “The Ex-Colored among Us: Johnson’s Autobiography and the New Millennial Multiracialism”
Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Stanford University
4. “Pragmatic Nationalism in Johnson’s Autobiography”
Michael Clay Hooper, Assistant Professor of English
Prairie View A&M University
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