I Call Myself an Artist
Writings by and About Charles Johnson
Published on 22. April 1999
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-253-33541-8 (ISBN)
Description
'As a symbol and agent of the process of communication, of communion, Johnson is a writer of our age whose messages will deliver him, whole and engaging, to readers whose interests are as varied and whose questions are as urgent as his own: to readers of this millennium - and the next' - Rudolph P. Byrd. Charles Johnson is one of the most talented black artists currently working in America. All of his novels - "Faith and the Good Thing", "Oxherding Tale", "Middle Passage", and "Dreamer" - have been widely praised and read. "Middle Passage" won the National Book Award for 1990 and established Johnson in the tradition of Ralph Ellison, one of his idols.In 1998 he was the recipient of one of the prestigious MacArthur 'Genius' awards. Though best known for his fiction, Johnson is also an accomplished essayist, reviewer, script writer, and cartoonist. As he himself says, 'I call myself an artist'. This volume gathers together a rich sampling of his work, stories and outtakes from the novels that have not been published before or have been hard to find, essays, including a lengthy autobiography, cartoons, speeches, and interviews.
A final section contains scholarly commentary by leading academic writers. "I Call Myself an Artist" provides a fascinating overview of the life work of one of America's most important artists.
A final section contains scholarly commentary by leading academic writers. "I Call Myself an Artist" provides a fascinating overview of the life work of one of America's most important artists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
42 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 147 mm
Weight
826 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-33541-8 (9780253335418)
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Content
Preface, Rudolph P. Byrd Part I, Autobiographical Acts Charles Johnson: An Autobiographical Essay, Charles Johnson Part II, Fiction First Words: Excerpts from the Early Fiction, Charles Johnson Literary Outtakes: More from Oxherding Tale, (1990) Charles Johnson Kwoon, (1991) Charles Johnson The Writer's Notebook, (1992) Charles Johnson The Work of the World, Charles Johnson Part III, Essays and Addresses Philosophy and Black Fiction, (1980) Charles Johnson Whole Sight: Notes on New Black Fiction, (1984) Charles Johnson Where Fiction and Philosophy Meet, (1988) Charles Johnson Novelists of Memory, (1989) Charles Johnson A Phenomenology of the Black Body, (1993) Charles Johnson On Writers and Writing, (1993) Charles Johnson Black Images and Their Global Impact, (1993) Charles Johnson Northwestern Commencement Address, (1994) Charles Johnson What is Man, (1995) Charles Johnson Journal Entries on the Death of John Gardner, (1995) Charles Johnson Part IV, Reviews and Cultural Criticism One Meaning of "Mo' Better Blues," (1991) Charles Johnson Black Fiction's Father Figure, (1991) Charles Johnson Spike Lee Does the Right Thing, (1992) Charles Johnson Inventing Africa, (1992) Charles Johnson Widening the Racial Divide, (1995) Charles Johnson The King We Left Behind, (1996) Charles Johnson Part V, Charlie's Pad A Capsule History of Blacks in Comics, Charles Johnson Selected Cartoons Part VI, Interviews/Conversations An Interview with Charles Johnson, (1993) Jonathan Little Critic, Not Cynic: Charles Johnson and Stanley Crouch (1995) VII, Reading Charles Johnson On Faith and the Good Thing John McComber, Philosophy and Hydrology: Situating Discourse in Charles Johnson's Faith and the Good Thing On Oxherding Tale Stanley Crouch, Charles Johnson: Free At Last! Vera M. Kutzinski, Johnson Revises Johnson: Oxherding Tale and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Jeffrey B. Leak, Wrestling With Desire: Slavery and Masculinities in Oxherding Tale Rudolph P. Byrd, Oxherding Tale and Siddhartha: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Emergence of a Hidden Tradition On Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970 Michael Boccia, Charles Johnson and the Philosopher's Ghost: The Phenomenological Thinking in Being and Race On The Sorcerer's Apprentice Rudolph P. Byrd, It Rests By Changing: Process in The Sorcerer's Apprentice On Middle Passage Daniel M. Scott, Interrogating Identity: Appropriation and Transformation in Middle Passage Ashraf H.A. Rushdy, The Phenomenology of the Allumersi: Charles Johnson and the Subject of the Narrative of Slavery Bibliography