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Introduction - Charles Johnson and philosophical Black fiction - Marc C. Conner and William R. Nash -- - The genesis of Charles Johnson's philosophical fiction - Linda Selzer -- - "In-itself-for-me" : decomposition and art in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale - Gena Chandler -- - Bondage and discipline : the pedagogy of discomfort in The sorcerer's apprentice - Herman Beavers -- - To utter the holy : the metaphysical romance of Middle passage - Marc C. Conner -- - "Go there" : the critical pragmatism of Charles Johnson - William Gleason -- - Pragmatic ethics in Charles Johnson's fiction - Gary Storhoff -- - Invisible threads : Charles Johnson and feminine civility - John Whalen-Bridge -- - "At the numinous heart of being" : Dreamer and Christian theology - Marc C. Conner -- - The application of an ideal : Turning the wheel as ontological program - William R. Nash
Essays by Herman Beavers, Gena Chandler, Marc C. Conner, William Gleason, William R. Nash, Linda Selzer, Gary Storhoff, and John Whalen-Bridge In Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher, leading scholars examine the African American author's literary corpus and major themes, ideas, and influences. The essays explore virtually all of Johnson's writings: each of his novels, his numerous short stories, the range of his nonfiction essays, his many book reviews, and even several unpublished works. These essays engage Johnson's work from a variety of critical perspectives, revealing the philoso
