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An edition of Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1900)

The autobiography of an ex-coloured man

1st Vintage Books ed.
  • 3.50 ·
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"The Auto-biography of an Ex-colored Man," by James Weldon Johnson, is the tragic fictional story of an unnamed narrator who tells the story of his coming-of-age at the beginning of the 20th century. Light-skinned enough to pass for white but emotionally tied to his mother's heritage, he ends up a failure in his own eyes after he chooses to follow the easier path while witnessing a white mob set fire to a black man. First published in 1912, "The Auto-biography of an Ex-colored Man" explores the intricacies of racial identity through the eventful life of its mixed-race narrator. Throughout the book, James Weldon Johnson's protagonist is torn between the opportunities open to him as an apparently white person and his strong sense of black identity. Though he marries a white woman, he lives a life plagued with guilt regarding his abandonment of his heritage as an African-American. James Weldon Johnson's writing is so powerful and believable that many readers took the book for a true autobiography until Johnson acknowledged his authorship in 1914."--P. [4] of cover.

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Language
English
Pages
211

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxv]-xxix).
Originally published, in hardcover, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1927"--T.p. verso.

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Genre
Fiction.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.52
Library of Congress
PS3519.O2625 A95 1989, PS3519.O2625A95 1989

The Physical Object

Pagination
xl, 211 p. ;
Number of pages
211

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2217011M
Internet Archive
autobiographyofe00john_1
ISBN 10
0679727531
LCCN
89040439
Library Thing
37415
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463153

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