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Charles Johnson in Context (Paperback)
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This work analyzes the intellectual and cultural influences on an
important African American novelist. Author of the National Book
Award-winning novel ""Middle Passage"", Charles Johnson belongs to
a generation of writers who collectively raised African American
literature to a new position of prominence during the late
twentieth century. In this book, Linda Furgerson Selzer takes an
interdisciplinary approach to Johnson's major fiction, providing
fresh insight into his work by placing it within a broad historical
context. In addition to ""Middle Passage"" (1990), Selzer focuses
on three other novels: ""Faith and the Good Thing"" (1974),
""Oxherding Tale"" (1982), and ""Dreamer"" (1998). She shows how
these works reflect Johnson's participation in the larger cultural
projects of several significant but often overlooked groups - young
black philosophers who challenged the dominant Anglo-American
empiricist tradition during the 1960s and 1970s; black Buddhists of
the post-civil rights era who sought to translate an ancient
religious practice into an African American idiom; and, black
public intellectuals who attempted to revive a cosmopolitan social
ethic during the 1990s. The cultural histories of each of these
groups, Selzer argues, provide important contexts for understanding
Johnson's evolution as a novelist. In the academic experience of
black students who entered philosophy programs during the turbulent
1960s, the spiritual concerns of black Buddhists who have only
recently begun to speak more publicly about their faith, and the
cultural issues surrounding the emergence of a new cohort of
African American public intellectuals, we see the roots of the
social, moral, and aesthetic vision that informs what some have
described as Johnson's 'philosophical fiction'. Selzer's probing
analysis of the influence of each of these contexts not only
enriches our understanding of Charles Johnson's fiction, it also
makes a broader contribution to the cultural history of African
America during the past half century.
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