The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man: With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - James Weldon Johnson - Boeken - Random House USA Inc - 9780679727538 - 17 december 1989
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man: With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reissue edition

James Weldon Johnson

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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man: With an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reissue edition

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 "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-Coloured 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 color.


256 pages

Media Boeken     Paperback Book   (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven 17 december 1989
ISBN13 9780679727538
Uitgevers Random House USA Inc
Pagina's 256
Afmetingen 132 × 202 × 18 mm   ·   263 g
Taal en grammatica Engels  

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