| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 335 p.) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Reflections on film, philosophy, and fiction: an interview with Charles Johnson (1978) / Ken McCullough -- Charles Johnson (1987) / Nicholas O'Connell -- Being and race: an interview with Charles Johnson (1988) / George Myers, Jr. -- Author navigates uncharted waters: middle passage takes readers on a spirited journey (1990) / M.L. Lyke -- Winner of National Book Award won't be a "voice of black America" (1991) / Peter Monaghan -- The philosopher and the American novel (1991) / Q & A at the California State Library -- The sorcerer's apprentice (1991) / Cyra McFadden -- An interview with Charles Johnson (1992) / Phoebe Bosché -- A life of balance through martial arts (1992) / Tim Allen -- An interview with Charles Johnson (1993) / Jonathan Little -- An interview with Charles Johnson (1993) / Marian Blue -- Charles Johnson: interview (1993) / Linda Davies -- Interviews with northwest writers: Charles Johnson (1993) / Irene Wanner -- An interview with Charles Johnson (1996) / Michael Boccia -- A man of his word (1998) / Beth Grubb -- A conversation with Charles Johnson (1998) / William R. Nash -- The human dimension: an interview with writer-philosopher Charles Johnson (1999) / Charles Mudede -- An interview with Charles Johnson (2002) / Jennifer Levasseur, Kevin Rabalais -- An interview with Charles Johnson (2003) / Jim McWilliams -- Shoulder to the wheel: an interview with Charles Johnson (2003) / John Whalen-Bridge |
| Summary |
"Jim McWilliams has gathered here the most significant of Charles Johnson's many interviews in a chronological progression, giving an invaluable account of Johnson's development from the late 1970s until the early years of the twenty-first century. The interviews bring up many essential elements of Johnson's life and work: his religious development from the AME Church to Buddhism; the importance to him of family; his emergence out of the civil rights and black power movements, and how his writing responds to both; the importance of his relationship with his mentor John Gardner and his own work as a teacher of creative writing; his interest in phenomenology and philosophical fiction |
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Capping the collection are two previously unpublished interviews that reflect back upon Johnson's career, even as they look forward to what Johnson calls "Act Three" of his life."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Johnson, Charles, 1948- -- Interviews
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Johnson, Charles, 1948- fast |
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Johnson, Charles 1948- gnd |
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Johnson, Charles (Schriftsteller) swd |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews
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African American authors -- Interviews
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African Americans in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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African American authors
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African Americans in literature
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Authors, American
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interviews.
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Interviews
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Interviews.
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Interviews.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021694707 |
| ISBN |
9780295802169 |
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0295802162 |
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