Title: I call myself an artist : writings by and about Charles Johnson /
Authors: Johnson, Charles, 1948-; Byrd, Rudolph P.; Johnson, Charles, 1948-
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Johnson, Charles, Criticism and interpretation.; Johnson, Charles, Interviews.; Johnson, Charles, Criticism and interpretation.; Johnson, Charles, Interviews.; Authors, American Interviews; African American authors Interviews; African Americans Intellectual life; African Americans in literature; African Americans Authorship.; Books Reviews; African American men Intellectual life
Abstract: This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South.
Contents: I call myself an artist -- First words : excerpts from the early fiction (1965-1968) -- More from Oxherding tale (1982) -- Kwoon (1991) -- The writer's notebook (1992) -- The work of the world (1998) -- Philosophy and black fiction (1980) -- Whole sight : notes on new black fiction (1984) -- Where fiction and philosophy meet (1988) -- Novelists of memory (1989) -- A phenomenology of the black body (1975-1976, 1993) -- Introduction to John Gardner's On writers and writing -- Black images and their global impact (1993) -- Northwestern commencement address, 1994 -- Introduction to Mark Twain's What is man? (1995) -- Journal entries on the death of John Gardner (1982-1983, 1995) -- One meaning of Mo' better blues (1991) -- Review of Richard Wright : works (1991) -- Spike Lee does the right thing (1992) -- Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's In my father's house (1992) -- Review of Dinesh D'Souza's The end of racism (1995) -- The King we left behind (1996) --^