Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson

Works about Charles Johnson’s Fiction

WORKS ABOUT CHARLES JOHNSON’S FICTION l i s t e d c h r o n o l o g i c a l l y Kutzinski, Vera. “Johnson Revises Johnson: Oxherding Tale and The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man.” Pacific Coast Philology 23.1 (1988): 39–46. Crouch, Stanley. “Charles Johnson: Free at Last!” Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays And Reviews, 1979–1989. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 136–43. Gleason, William. “The Liberation of Perception: Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale.” Black American Literature Forum 25.4 (Winter 1991): 705–28. Hayward, Jennifer. “Something to Serve: Constructs of the Feminine in Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale.” Black American Literature Forum 25.4 (Winter 1991): 689–703. Little, Jonathan. “Charles Johnson’s Revolutionary Oxherding Tale.” Studies in American Fiction 19 (1991): 141–51. Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. “The Phenomenology of the Allmuseri: Charles Johnson and the Subject of the Narrative of Slavery.” African American Review 26 (1992): 373–94. 320 Benesch, Klaus. “The Education of Mingo.” The African American Short Story, 1970 to 1990. Ed. Wolfgang Karrer and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher, 1993. 169–79. Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. “The Properties of Desire: Forms of Slave Identity in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage.” Arizona Quarterly 50.2 (1994): 73–108. Travis, Molly Abel. “Beloved and Middle Passage: Race, Narrative, and the Critic’s Essentialism.” Narrative 2.3 (1994): 179–200. Coleman, James W. “Charles Johnson’s Quest for Black Freedom in Oxherding Tale.” African American Review 29.4 (1995): 631–44. Goudie, S. X. “‘Leavin’ a Mark on the Wor(l)d’: Marksmen and Marked Men in Middle Passage.” African American Review 29.1 (1995): 109–22. Scott, Daniel M., III. “Interrogating Identity: Appropriation and Transformation in Middle Passage.” African American Review 29.4 (1995): 645–55. Walby, Celestin. “The African Sacrificial Kingship Ritual and Johnson ’s Middle Passage.” African American Review 29.4 (1995): 657–69. Byrd, Rudolph P. “Oxherding Tale and Sidhartha: Philosophy, Fiction , and the Emergence of a Hidden Tradition.” African American Review 30.4 (1996): 549–58 Fagel, Brian. “Passages from the Middle: Coloniality and Postcoloniality in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage.” African American Review 30.4 (1996): 625–34. Griffiths, Frederick T. “‘Sorcery Is Dialectical’: Plato and Jean Toomer in Charles Johnson’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” African American Review 30.4 (1996): 527–38. Little, Jonathan. “From the Comic Book to the Comic: Charles Johnson’s Variations on Creative Expression.” African American Review 30.4 (1996): 579–600. Muther, Elizabeth. “Isadora at Sea: Misogyny as Comic Capital in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage.” African American Review 30.4 (1996): 649–58. O’Keefe, Vincent A. “Reading Rigor Mortis: Offstage Violence and Excluded Middles in Johnson’s Middle Passage and Morrison’s Beloved.” African American Review 30.4 (1996): 635–646 WORKS ABOUT CHARLES JOHNSON’S FICTION 321 Smith, Virginia Watley. “Sorcery, Double-Consciousness, and Warring Souls: An Intertextual Reading of Middle Passage and Captain Blackman.” African American Review 30.4 (1996): 659–74. Storhoff, Gary. “The Artist as Universal Mind: Berkeley’s Influence on Charles Johnson.” African American Review 30.4 (1996): 539–48. Brown, Bill. “Global Bodies/Postnationalities: Charles Johnson’s Consumer Culture.” Representations 58 (Spring 1997): 24–48. Jablon, Madelyn. “Mimesis of Process: The Thematization of Art: Charles Johnson, Middle Passage.” Black Metafiction: SelfConsciousness in African American Literature. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. 29–54. Little, Jonathan. Charles Johnson’s Spiritual Imagination. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Thaden, Barbara Z. “Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage as Historiographic Metafiction.” College English 59.7 (Nov. 1997): 753–66. Byrd, Rudolph P., ed. I Call Myself an Artist: Writings By and About Charles Johnson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. Hardack, Richard. “Black Skin, White Tissues: Local Color and Universal Solvents in the Novels of Charles Johnson.” Callaloo 22.4 (Fall 1999): 1028–53. Page, Philip. “‘As Within, so It Is Without’: The Composite Self in Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale and Middle Passage.” Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1999. 116–56. Retman, Sonnet. “‘Nothing Was Lost in the Masquerade’: The Protean Performance of Genre and Identity in Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale.” African American Review 33.3 (Fall 1999): 417–37. Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. “Revising the Form, Misserving the Order: Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage.” Neo-slave Narratives: Studies in the...