Given the current interest in the writings of themselves construction, due to the proliferation of its manifestations which are in constant reinvention process, we discuss in this dissertation the novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man written by James Weldon Johnson, issued anonymously in 1912. From the description of the autobiography strategies adopted in it, we show it s chameleonic and performative character, both in narrative construction and identity experience of the narrator-character. In this perspective, we elucidate how Johnson s literary procedure suggests a dimension of political and cultural criticism. From this moment, we present an alternative reading of the book through the definition of the term cultural autobiography . Therefore, we reflect on the categories of autobiographical space, highlighting theirs limits and possibilities – on one hand, we discuss theirs insufficient to think of the novel; on the other hand, we show to what extent they corroborate to define the alternative concept that it is suggest here: the term cultural autobiography . Keywords