Revising Critical Judgments of "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man."

AUTOBIOGRAPHY of an Ex-Colored Man, The (Book : Johnson); JOHNSON, James Weldon, 1871-1938; LITERATURE; FICTION; AFRICAN Americans

This article focuses on "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," by James Weldon Johnson. "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" is the first fictional text written by an African American that deliberately masks its genre. The sociohistorical circumstances framing Johnson's act of writing plainly conflict with that narrator's portraiture.