Understanding Charles Johnson
By: Gary Storhoff.
Series: Understanding contemporary American literature
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Johnson, Charles Richard, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation.; African Americans in literature.
Description: "Understanding Charles Johnson offers a critical introduction to the fiction of one of the most highly acclaimed contemporary writers and the first African American male since Ralph Ellison to win the National Book Award, which Johnson received in 1990 for Middle Passage. In addition to providing a biographical sketch, Gary Storhoff analyzes Johnson's four novels and two volumes of short stories. Describing his body of work as unique in American fiction, Storhoff explains how philosophical and religious orientations differentiate Johnson's writings and challenge his readers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index.