Amritjit Singh: 2 books

Crossing Borders

Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh

by Silvia Schultermandl, Peter Schmidt, Elleke Boehmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017

Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the...

New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"

by Lawrence Oliver, Michael Nowlin, Jeff Karem
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017

James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography...