Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man - Couverture souple

Weldon Johnson, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190976275X ISBN 13 : 9781909762756

Editeur : Jacaranda Books, 2019

Synopsis

A powerful look at race and race relations in America, Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man is a vital text that is just as relevant today as it was when it was published.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871-June 26, 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was appointed under President Theodore Roosevelt as US consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua for most of the period from 1906 to 1913. In 1934 he was the first African-American professor to be hired at New York University. Later in life he became a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University.

Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novels, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. He published The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man anonymously in 1912, to avoid controversy, only acknowledging writing the novel in 1927, maintaining it wasn't a memoir.

Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of five books including the novels SONG OF THE SHANK and RAILS UNDER MY BACK, which won the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction; the short story collection HOLDING PATTERN, which received The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and two collections of poetry. Allen is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a grant in Innovative Literature from the Creative Capital Foundation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jacaranda Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190976275X
• ISBN 13: 9781909762756
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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