James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson.

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) fue un autor, político, diplomático, crítico, periodista, poeta, antologista, educador, abogado, escritor de canciones, activista de los derechos humanos y prominente figura en el Renacimiento de Harlem. Johnson es más recordado por su trabajo como escritor, que incluye novelas, poemas y colecciones de folclore. Fue, asimismo, uno de los primeros profesores afroamericanos en la Universidad de Nueva York. Más tarde fue profesor de literatura creativa en la Universidad Fisk.


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Obra selecta

Poesía

  • Lift Every Voice and Sing (1899)
  • Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
  • Go Down, Death (1926)
  • God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)
  • Saint Peter Relates an Incident (1935)
  • The Glory of the Day was in Her Face
  • Selected Poems (1936)

Otras obras y colecciones

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927)
  • Self-Determining Haiti (1920)
  • The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
  • The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925)
  • Second Book of Negro Spirituals (1926)
  • Black Manhattan (1930)
  • Negro Americans, What Now? (1934)
  • Along This Way (1933)
  • The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson (1995, posthumous collection)

Otras referencias

  • James Weldon Johnson: Writings (William L. Andrews, editor) (The Library of America), 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-52-5.
  • Yenser, Thomas (editor), Who's Who in Colored America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America, Brooklyn, New York, 1930-1931-1932 (Third Edition)
  • The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris, New York, Oxford, 1997, p. 404 ff.

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