The Resource Charles Johnson's fiction, William R. Nash
Charles Johnson's fiction, William R. Nash
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- Summary
- Charles Johnson challenges separatist politics and tries to get beyond race as a literary category. In Charles Johnson's Fiction, William R. Nash emphasizes and explores the tensions in Johnson's work between his ideal of race as illusion and his methods of articulating racial grievance. Nash examines Johnson's short stories, novels--Faith and the Good Thing, Oxherding Tale, Middle Passage, and Dreamer--and the nonfiction work Being and Race. Tracing the themes of Johnson's political and artistic concerns as they evolved in his work, Nash locates his fascination with the aesthetics of the Black Arts Movement and his dismissal of separatist black politics and racialist thought. He also considers Johnson's adoption of Western and Eastern philosophies and belief that race is a blinding, limiting category that impedes the exploration of individual and collective identity. In formulating a mode of expression that balances the conflicting demands of race and aesthetics, Johnson crafts a new vision of history and African-American identity that signifies on a range of black and white literary predecessors, including Zora Neale Hurston, Theodore Dreiser, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Herman Melville
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 221 pages
- Contents
-
- Origins and influences /The Aesthetic articulated: Being and race / Philosophy and folklore in Faith and the good thing / Lumber for the platform: The Sorcerers apprentice / "There is a foundation for the house I'm building": Oxherding tale / "Dualism is a bloddy structure of the mind": Middle passage / "Just possibly I was composing a gospel": Dreamer / Conclusion"The 'On-going experiment' continues" /
- Isbn
- 9780252027734
- Label
- Charles Johnson's fiction
- Title
- Charles Johnson's fiction
- Statement of responsibility
- William R. Nash
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Charles Johnson challenges separatist politics and tries to get beyond race as a literary category. In Charles Johnson's Fiction, William R. Nash emphasizes and explores the tensions in Johnson's work between his ideal of race as illusion and his methods of articulating racial grievance. Nash examines Johnson's short stories, novels--Faith and the Good Thing, Oxherding Tale, Middle Passage, and Dreamer--and the nonfiction work Being and Race. Tracing the themes of Johnson's political and artistic concerns as they evolved in his work, Nash locates his fascination with the aesthetics of the Black Arts Movement and his dismissal of separatist black politics and racialist thought. He also considers Johnson's adoption of Western and Eastern philosophies and belief that race is a blinding, limiting category that impedes the exploration of individual and collective identity. In formulating a mode of expression that balances the conflicting demands of race and aesthetics, Johnson crafts a new vision of history and African-American identity that signifies on a range of black and white literary predecessors, including Zora Neale Hurston, Theodore Dreiser, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Herman Melville
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nash, William R.
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3560.O3735
- LC item number
- Z78 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- African Americans in literature
- Johnson, Charles
- Johnson, Charles
- Johnson, Charles
- Label
- Charles Johnson's fiction, William R. Nash
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references(pages 201-209) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Origins and influences /The Aesthetic articulated: Being and race / Philosophy and folklore in Faith and the good thing / Lumber for the platform: The Sorcerers apprentice / "There is a foundation for the house I'm building": Oxherding tale / "Dualism is a bloddy structure of the mind": Middle passage / "Just possibly I was composing a gospel": Dreamer / Conclusion"The 'On-going experiment' continues" /
- Control code
- 49576176
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 221 pages
- Isbn
- 9780252027734
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002005308
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)49576176
- Label
- Charles Johnson's fiction, William R. Nash
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references(pages 201-209) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Origins and influences /The Aesthetic articulated: Being and race / Philosophy and folklore in Faith and the good thing / Lumber for the platform: The Sorcerers apprentice / "There is a foundation for the house I'm building": Oxherding tale / "Dualism is a bloddy structure of the mind": Middle passage / "Just possibly I was composing a gospel": Dreamer / Conclusion"The 'On-going experiment' continues" /
- Control code
- 49576176
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 221 pages
- Isbn
- 9780252027734
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002005308
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)49576176
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