African American philosopher and novelist Charles Johnson presents his views of a black American literature that explores universal metaphysical questions and draws from both Eastern and Western philosophical viewpoints. Works cited include Being & race, Faith and the good thing and Middle passage.
"African American philosopher and novelist Charles Johnson presents his views of a black American literature that explores universal metaphysical questions and draws from both Eastern and Western philosophical viewpoints. Works cited include Being & race, Faith and the good thing and Middle passage."
"African American philosopher and novelist Charles Johnson presents his views of a black American literature that explores universal metaphysical questions and draws from both Eastern and Western philosophical viewpoints. Works cited include Being & race, Faith and the good thing and Middle passage."@en
"Charles Johnson describes his over-arching literary objective--to explore classic, metaphysical questions from eastern and western philosophies against the backdrop of African American life and history."@en
"This program shows how Charles Johnson, a quintessential multicultural novelist, blends black folk tales, Zen parables, 18th-century picaresque novels, and 20th-century philosophy into storytelling of remarkable vitality. Here, Johnson explains that he explores metaphysical questions against the backdrop of black American life. Oxherding Tales and Middle Passage are odysseys in search of individual identity and common values among conflicting cultures. Johnson concludes, "I am looking for the universal in particulars of black experience. We are cultural variations on one world experience."
"An interview with author Charles Richard Johnson. Therein, Johnson describes his literary objective: to explore classic, metaphysical questions from East and West against the backdrop of African life and history."@en
"Charles Johnson describes his over-arching literary objective--to explore classic, metaphysical questions from east and west against the backdrop of African American life and history."@en
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