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James Weldon Johnson
詹姆斯·威爾頓·約翰遜(James Weldon Johnson)
In Johnson’s groundbreaking “Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man” (1912), a young man of mixed race decides to pass as white. As its author had hoped, the anonymously published novel “passed” as memoir until Johnson acknowledged it to be fiction in 1927. “Autobiography” went on to influence generations of African-American writers.
在約翰遜1912年石破天驚的小說《一個前有色人種的自傳》(Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man)中，一個混血兒希望自己以白人的身份蒙混過關。正如作者所愿，這部匿名出版的小說也被當做回憶錄而“蒙混過關”了。直到1927年，約翰遜才承認它是虛構的。《自傳》繼續影響了好幾代非裔美國作家。
