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236. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927) by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post- Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lives through a variety of experiences, including witnessing a lynching ...
- James Weldon Johnson
- 1912
Feb 1, 2004 · The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: African American men ...
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- English
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction. The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem ...
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LitCharts offers a comprehensive analysis of James Weldon Johnson's novel, a fictional autobiography of a biracial man's struggle with racial identity and discrimination. Find plot summary, themes, quotes, characters, terms, symbols, and literary devices.
Feb 1, 1990 · 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 ...
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- James Weldon Johnson
- Penguin Classics
Feb 12, 2015 · An unusually rich selection of “Backgrounds and Sources” focuses on Johnson’s life; the autobiographical inspirations for The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; the cultural history of the era in which Johnson lived and wrote; the noteworthy reception history for the 1912, 1927, and 1948 editions; and related writings by Johnson. In ...
- James Weldon Johnson
About The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. 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 its narrator’s private views and feelings as well as an ...
