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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b12686719.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references(p. 201-209) and index.".
- catalog description "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" /".
- catalog extent "xi, 221 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0252027736 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Charles (Charles Richard), 1948- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Charles, 1948- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS3560.O3735 Z78 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "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" /".
- catalog title "Charles Johnson's fiction / William R. Nash.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".