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James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr

Buch

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 became 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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-679-72753-8
  • EAN: 9780679727538
  • Produktnummer: 9032078
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.

Über den Autor


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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