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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN (WARBLER CLASSICS) IBD

WARBLER CLASSICS
05 / 2020
9781735121215
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Sinopsis

Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Adams, James Weldon Johnson relates the emotionally gripping tale of a mixed-race piano prodigy who can pass for white in turn-of-the-century America. Forced into impossible choices created by an unjust society, the narrator describes his experiences as he travels from Jacksonville to New York City, the rural South to Paris, London, and beyond. The earliest first-person novel published by an African American author, JohnsonâÇÖs powerfully unsentimental story examines the significance of chance and choice, the particularly American investment in self-invention, and the role of identity in shaping our lives. Its influence extends to Richard Wright, Ralph Waldo EllisonâÇÖsáInvisible Manáand even Barack ObamaâÇÖsáDreams from my Father.áIncludes several of JohnsonâÇÖs influential and still timelyáNew York Ageáeditorials and a detailed biographical timeline.

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10,62