The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: Introduction by Gregory Pardlo: Everyman's Library Contemporar
Autor James Weldon Johnson Gregory Pardloen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2022
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 color.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780593535561
ISBN-10: 0593535561
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 134 x 207 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Colecția Everyman's Library Contemporar
Seria Everyman's Library Contemporar
ISBN-10: 0593535561
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 134 x 207 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Colecția Everyman's Library Contemporar
Seria Everyman's Library Contemporar
Notă biografică
James Weldon Johnson; Introduction by Gregory Pardlo
Cuprins
Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
Preface to the Original Edition of 1912
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN
Explanatory Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
Preface to the Original Edition of 1912
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN
Explanatory Notes
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A compellingly powerful novel about racial relations that is as relevant now as it was one hundred years ago.
A compellingly powerful novel about racial relations that is as relevant now as it was one hundred years ago.