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Charles R. Johnson (born 1948 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American scholar and author of novels, short stories, and essays. Johnson, an African-American, has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Middle Passage and Dreamer. Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
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A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ...
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An essay is a short work of writing that treats a topic from an authors personal point of view. ...
Languages Predominantly American English Religions Predominantly Christianity and Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ...
The story is set in 1830 and tells of a freed slave named Rutherford Calhoun. ...
Johnson first came to prominence in the 1960s as a political cartoonist, at which time he was also involved in radical politics. In 1970, he published a collection of cartoons, and this led to a television series about cartooning on PBS. Johnson's first novel, Faith and the Good Thing was published in 1974. In 1990, he was awarded the National Book Award for Middle Passage. 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Johnson is currently the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed Professor of English at the University of Washington, and is a MacArthur Fellow. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2003 he published Turning the Wheel, a collections of essays about his experiences as an African-American Buddhist. The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ...
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ...
Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Buddhism is a dharmic, non-theistic religion, which is also a philosophy and a system of psychology[]. Buddhism is also known as Buddha Dharma or Dhamma, which means the teachings of the Awakened One in Sanskrit and Pali, the languages of ancient Buddhist texts. ...
Johnson received his B.S. and M.A. from Southern Illinois University in 1971 and 1973, respectively; he got his Ph.D. in philosophy from SUNY-Stony Brook in 1988. Southern Illinois University is a university in southern Illinois with two institutions and multiple campuses. ...
Stony Brook University, (SBU), otherwise known as the State University of New York at Stony Brook, (SUNYSB), is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York (on the north side of Long Island, about 65 miles east of Manhattan, New York). ...
==Controversy==k
In the updated 1995 introduction to his novel Oxherding Tale, Johnson engendered a political firestorm when he seemed to criticize Alice Walker's The Color Purple for its negative portrayal of African-American males. Quoth Johnson: "I leave it to readers to decide which book pushes harder at the boundaries of convention, and inhabits most confidently the space where fiction and philosophy meet." Such candor and criticism came as a shock to some in academia, who felt Johnson violated an unspoken taboo against criticizing another writer of color. Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African-American author and feminist who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for The Color Purple. ...
Books
- Faith and the Good Thing (1974, ISBN 0-7432-1254-1)
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations (1982, ISBN 0-452-27237-8)
- Oxherding Tale (1982, ISBN 0-253-16607-1)
- Being and Race (1988, ISBN 0-253-31165-9)
- Middle Passage (1990, ISBN 0-684-85588-7)
- Dreamer: A Novel (1998, ISBN 0-684-85443-0)
- Turning the Wheel (2003, ISBN 0-7432-4324-2)
Reviews and Reactions Review of Dreamer at Pretty Fakes
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