The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson, Gregory Pardlo
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21 Feb 2023 US
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9780593469606
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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 Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man became a pioneering document of African-American culture and an eloquent model for later novelists ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to ' pass' for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of Black society at the turn of the century - from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of Ragtime. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a complex and moving examination of the question of race and an unsparing look at what it meant to forge an identity as a man in a culture that recognized nothing but colour.

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James Weldon Johnson (Author) James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a novelist, poet, lawyer, editor and ethnomusicologist, and 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 was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and 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 of Digest, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Pardlo' s poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation and The New York Times, among others. He is Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review.
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ISBN-13: 9780593469606
Published: 21 Feb 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Vintage Books
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 132mm
Pages: 256

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