The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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- Hardcover
184 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2023
Summary
A ground-breaking classic novel of the Black experience in America that remains remarkably relevant more than a century after its first publication.
First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards - and double consciousness - experienced by Black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, The Autobiograp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594064 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594067 |
| Author: | James Weldon Johnson, Gregory Pardlo |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 319g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 134mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson (Author)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a novelist, poet, lawyer, editor, and ethnomusicologist. He was also a co-author of the hymn ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’, which is informally known as the Black national anthem in the USA.
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he was educated at Atlanta and Columbia Universities and was the first Black lawyer admitted to the Florida bar. He also worked as a songwriter in New York, served as an American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, was the executive secretary of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), and was a professor of creative literature at Fisk University.
His other books include an autobiography, Along This Way, and God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.
Gregory Pardlo (Introducer)
Gregory Pardlo is the author of Air Traffic and Digest, the latter of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Pardlo’s poems and essays have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New York Times. He is currently the Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review.
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