The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1990
Summary
Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in America.
Masked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this “autobiography” purports to be a candid account of its narrator’s private views and feelings as well as an acknowledgement of the central secret of his life: that though he lives as a white man, he is, by heritage and experience, an African-American.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140184020 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140184023 |
| Author: | James Weldon Johnson, William L. Andrews |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1990 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 130mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Twentieth-Century Classics |
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871, James Weldon Johnson was a pioneering figure who broke through racial barriers. He was educated at Atlanta University and Columbia, and was the first Black man admitted to the Florida bar. His diverse career included songwriting in New York, serving as an American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, holding the position of executive secretary of the NAACP, and teaching creative literature at Fisk University, experiences detailed in his autobiography, Along This Way.
Johnson also authored works such as Saint Peter Relates an Incident, Black Manhattan, and God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Beyond his own writing, he was instrumental in editing groundbreaking anthologies of Black American poetry and spirituals. James Weldon Johnson died in 1938.
William L. Andrews
William L. Andrews is the E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and has edited or coedited more than thirty books focusing on African American literature.
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