The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - Introduction by Gregory Pardlo

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of the groundbreaking classic novel of the Black experience in America that is still remarkably relevant more than a century later. First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standards--and double consciousness--experienced by Black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to "pass" for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of Black society at the turn of the century--from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of ragtime. ; Everyman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. ;

Product details

• Authors: James Weldon Johnson, Johnson James Weldon, Gregory Pardlo
• Assisted by: Pardlo Gregory (Introduction)
• Publisher: Everyman s Library PRH USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9780593535561
• ISBN: 978-0-593-53556-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 211 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, FICTION / African American & Black / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Relating to African American / Black American people, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction