The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
First published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is James Weldon's Johnson fictional account of a young biracial man living in America during the second half of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. The so-called Ex-Colored man makes his living as a jazz pianist playing ragtime music at a popular New York club. It is here that he catches the attention of a wealthy white gentleman who takes a curious interest in him and employs him to play at his parties. While he becomes friends with the man a feeling of subservience reminiscent of slavery prompts him to part ways. He travels to the south where he int…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4209-5236-0
- EAN: 9781420952360
- Produktnummer: 19548995
- Verlag: Digireads.com
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 100 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.5 cm 138 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 138
Über den Autor
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American writer, diplomat, musician, public intellectual, and civil rights leader. The first African American executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he was known for his poetry, novels, anthologies, and editorial writings. From 1906 to 1913 he served as President Theodore Roosevelt's U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. In 1931 he was appointed the Adam K. Spence Professor of Creative Literature at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee and in 1934 he became New York University's first African American professor.
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