James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse roman uit 1912 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige auteur James Weldon Johnson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman en over de schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man review en recensie
In deze baanbrekende, nog altijd actuele roman uit 1912 beschrijft de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver James Weldon Johnson op indrukwekkende wijze de innerlijke ontwikkeling van een zwarte en getalenteerde man, die in een door segregatie doordrongen maatschappij probeert om te gaan met de beperkingen die het geïnstitutionaliseerde racisme hem oplegt. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)
In this groundbreaking, still relevant 1912 novel, African-American writer James Weldon Johnson impressively describes the inner development of a black and talented man who, in a society permeated by segregation, tries to cope with the limitations imposed on him by institutionalized racism. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- Auteur: James Weldon Johnson (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1912
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Macmillan Collector’s Library
- Omvang: 176 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
James Weldon Johnson The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man review en recensie
In deze baanbrekende, nog altijd actuele roman uit 1912 beschrijft de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver James Weldon Johnson op indrukwekkende wijze de innerlijke ontwikkeling van een zwarte en getalenteerde man, die in een door segregatie doordrongen maatschappij probeert om te gaan met de beperkingen die het geïnstitutionaliseerde racisme hem oplegt. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)
In this groundbreaking, still relevant 1912 novel, African-American writer James Weldon Johnson impressively describes the inner development of a black and talented man who, in a society permeated by segregation, tries to cope with the limitations imposed on him by institutionalized racism. (Allesoverboekenenschrijvers.nl, ∗∗∗∗∗)
Flaptekst van de roman van James Weldon Johnson uit 1912
“I became painfully conscious of a difference between myself and the boys with whom I played.” (James Weldon Johnson)
James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate relationship between race and class in late nineteenth-century America.
After losing his mother at a very young age, the narrator is thrust from his comfortable, middle-class environment, afforded by his distant but aristocratic father, into the wider world. His passion for music begins in Georgia’s all-black church community and takes him from New York, where he plays ragtime for a rich white gentleman, to the South, where he witnesses lynchings and out of fear gives up his passion, as well as his race, to pass for white.
Relevant to this day, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is an unflinching account of black experience in America.
James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on 17 June 1871. He trained in music and in 1901 moved to New York with his brother John; together they wrote around two hundred songs 
for Broadway. His first book, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, published anonymously in 1912, was not a great success until he reissued it in his own name in 1927. In that time he established his reputation as a writer and became known in the Harlem Renaissance for his poems and for collating anthologies of poems by other black writers. Through his work as a civil rights activist he became the first executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as well as the first African American professor to be hired at New York University. He died on 26 June 1938 in Wiscasset, Maine, at the age of 67.