James Weldon Johnson 
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Warbler Classics) [EPUB ebook] 

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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, Johnson’s 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 Ellison’s Invisible Man and even Barack Obama’s Dreams from my Father. Includes several of Johnson’s influential and still timely New York Age editorials and a detailed biographical timeline.

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Ulrich Baer holds a BA from Harvard and a Ph D from Yale. He is University Professor at New York University and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships for his work. He is the translator and editor of Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Dark Interval, Letters on Life, and Letters to a Young Poet. Other books include Remnants of Song, Spectral Evidence, What Snowflakes Get Right, and in the Warbler Press Contemplations series: Dickinson on Love, Nietzsche on Love, Rilke on Love, and Wilde on Love.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 188 ● ISBN 9781735121208 ● Dateigröße 1.5 MB ● Verlag Warbler Press ● Erscheinungsjahr 2020 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 7466899 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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