Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson - ISBN: 9781909762756
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A powerful look at race and race relations in America, Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man is a vital text that is just as relevant today as it was when it was published.

Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

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  • Paperback

    216 pages

  • Release Date

    21 November 2019

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Summary

Masked in the tradition of the literary confession as practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this “autobiography” purports to be the 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. Tracing his journey from the South to the North and from America to Europe and back again, the narrator’s first hand experiences…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781909762756
ISBN-10:190976275X
Author:James Weldon Johnson, Jeffery Renard Allen
Publisher:Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
Imprint:Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:216
Release Date:21 November 2019
Weight:180g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 14mm
Series:Jacaranda
About The Author

James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871-June 26, 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was appointed under President Theodore Roosevelt as US consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua for most of the period from 1906 to 1913. In 1934 he was the first African-American professor to be hired at New York University. Later in life he became a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University.

Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novels, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. He published The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man anonymously in 1912, to avoid controversy, only acknowledging writing the novel in 1927, maintaining it wasn’t a memoir.

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