The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
$29.55
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
25 June 1990
Summary
First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard – and double consciousness – that ruled the lives of black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man became a groundbreaking document of Afro-American culture; the first first-person novel ever written by a black, it bec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679727538 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679727531 |
| Author: | James Weldon Johnson |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 1990 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 132mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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About The Author
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)-novelist, poet, lawyer, editor, ethnomusicologist-was also the coauthor (with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson) of the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” widely accepted as the “Negro National Anthem.”
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