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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. J. W. Johnson. History, Sociology. Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in America Masked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this "autobiography" purports to be a candid ...
1 de mar. de 1991 · The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is an incredible book. Written in 1912, it is from author/poet James Weldon Johnson, perhaps most known for his verse sermons God’s Trombones. This book recounts the life of a fictional narrator—although some would say that narrator is very close to Johnson himself—who tells of his life from childhood to fatherhood.
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1 de fev. de 1990 · James Weldon Johnson. Penguin, Feb 1, 1990 - Fiction - 192 pages. Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in America. Masked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this "autobiography" purports to be a candid account of ...
Among his most famous writings are Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, published anonymously in 1912, and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927), the winner of the Harmon Gold Award. He was also editor of several anthologies of African-American poetry and spirituals, and in 1933 his autobiography, Along This Way, was published.
The mixed-race narrator of James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man manages to move back and forth between the rigidly segregated worlds of black and white America at the turn of the twentieth century. Because he can “pass” for white, the narrator gets a firsthand look at the white Americans’ violent prejudices and ...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, by James Weldon Johnson, was published anonymously by a small New York publisher, Sherman, French and Company, in 1912. The work is a novel, but the author hoped that by remaining anonymous he could persuade readers that it was an actual autobiography. The novel, told in the first person, is the story of ...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man quotes below are all either spoken by The Narrator or “Ex-Colored Man” or refer to The Narrator or “Ex-Colored Man”. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
