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Johnson, J: LIAM JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WRIT de James Weldon Johnson

Johnson, J: LIAM JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WRIT

Autor James Weldon Johnson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 ian 2004

În America de la începutul secolului XX, o perioadă marcată de tensiuni rasiale profunde și de zorii mișcării pentru drepturile civile, James Weldon Johnson a reușit să sfideze barierele sociale printr-o carieră de o complexitate rară. Notăm cu interes felul în care această ediție de la Library of America reușește să captureze nu doar scriitorul, ci și diplomatul, activistul și muzicianul. Credem că importanța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea sa de a prezenta evoluția intelectuală a unui om care a navigat între diplomația din Nicaragua și strălucirea teatrelor de pe Broadway.

Subliniem prezența romanului The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, o lucrare care, la publicarea sa anonimă în 1912, a fost confundată cu o autobiografie reală datorită preciziei sale psihologice. Ca și New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" de Noelle Morrissette, acest volum explorează tema identității rasiale și a „trecerii” (passing) drept alb, dar o face direct prin vocea narativă a lui Johnson, oferind cititorului acces nefiltrat la dilemele morale ale protagonistului. Structura antologiei este una cinematică, alternând între proza analitică a editorialelor politice și ritmul spiritual al poeziilor din God’s Trombones.

Observăm un contrast fascinant între tonul genial al memoriilor sale din Along This Way și rigoarea eseurilor despre intervenția americană în Haiti. Această polifonie de stiluri demonstrează de ce Johnson a rămas o figură fundamentală a literaturii afro-americane. Ritmul lecturii variază de la introspecția lentă a romanului la cadența alertă a scrierilor jurnalistice, oferind o panoramă completă a societății americane pre-Harlem Renaissance.

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ISBN-13: 9781931082525
ISBN-10: 1931082529
Pagini: 828
Dimensiuni: 132 x 210 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Library of America

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Recomandăm această ediție cititorilor pasionați de istorie americană și literatură clasică. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a rădăcinilor mișcării pentru drepturi civile printr-o figură care a fost, simultan, un artist de succes și un strateg politic. Este o resursă esențială pentru oricine dorește să exploreze nuanțele identității și activismului într-un format de lux, durabil, specific colecției Library of America.

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James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) a fost un intelectual public american a cărui viață a redefinit posibilitățile pentru cetățenii de culoare în epoca segregației. A servit ca diplomat în Venezuela și Nicaragua sub administrația Taft și a devenit primul secretar de culoare al NAACP. Cariera sa literară este marcată de inovație, fiind un pionier al romanului modern afro-american și un poet care a celebrat tradiția orală a predicilor religioase. Co-autor al imnului „Lift Every Voice and Sing”, Johnson a rămas un mediator cultural esențial, punând bazele pentru ceea ce urma să devină Renașterea din Harlem și influențând generații de scriitori și activiști.

Notă biografică

James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University—experiences recorded in his autobiography, Along This Way. Other books by him include Saint Peter Relates an Incident, Black Manhattan, and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938.

Descriere scurtă

"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" (1912), James Weldon Johnson's first book and the first modernist novel written by an African American, is a groundbreaking and subtle account of racial passing, initially published as an anonymous memoir. Its veracity?many believed it to be a genuine autobiography?has made it one of the undisputed masterpieces of African American literature and established Johnson in the African American literary vanguard of the first half of the twentieth century. He was also one of the central figures of the civil-rights struggle of his era, a tireless activist and longtime leader of the NAACP. Until now, however, his innovative and fascinating writings have never been gathered in a one-volume edition. Johnson's complex career spanned the worlds of diplomacy (as a U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua), politics (as secretary of the NAACP), journalism (as the founder of one newspaper and longtime editor of another), and musical theater (as lyricist for the Broadway song-writing team of Cole and Johnson Brothers). "Writings" presents a generous array of Johnson's essays which, with the early work of W.E.B. Du Bois, established the foundation of twentieth- century African American literary criticism; a selection of his topical editorials from the "New York Age"; and an offering of his poems and lyrics, including "God's Trombones"?a brilliant verse homage to African American preaching?vaudeville songs, protest poems, and perhaps Johnson's most famous work, ?Lift Every Voice and Sing, ? a stirring hymn often called the ?Negro National Anthem.?

Descriere

James Weldon Johnson’s career was one of extraordinary range, spanning the worlds of diplomacy (as U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua), politics (as Secretary of the NAACP), journalism (as founder of one newspaper and longtime editor of another), musical theater (as lyricist for the Broadway songwriting team of Cole and Johnson Brothers), and literature (as novelist, poet, and anthologist). At the dawning of what would become the modern civil rights movement, he forged a record of accomplishment that defied the odds. The Library of America now presents a collection of his writings that displays the many facets of a complex and impassioned writer. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Johnson’s first book, is a novel that on its original anonymous publication was taken by many for an actual memoir. A groundbreaking work of modern fiction, it powerfully describes the inner development of a gifted, socially alienated man as he tries to come to terms with the constraints of racism. Along This Way (1933) is Johnson’s genial and enthralling account of his fantastically busy life, with a cast of characters including W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Clarence Darrow, Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Van Vechten, and many others. A selection of shorter prose—editorials from The New York Age, political essays, literary prefaces, an excerpt from the historical study Black Manhattan—confirms the variety of Johnson’s interests, as he comments on figures and topics including Jack Johnson, Marcus Garvey, Woodrow Wilson, lynching, anti-Japanese discrimination in California, American involvement in Haiti, changing trends in theater and poetry, and the significance of spirituals. Johnson’s poetry is represented by the full text of God’s Trombones (1927), his stirring homage to African-American preaching, and shorter works including “O Black and Unknown Bards,” lyrics from Johnson’s Broadway songwriting days, and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the hymn often referred to as the “Negro National Anthem.” LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.