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For the first time in ebook, renowned scholar Charles Johnson’s exploration of contemporary black literature and the meaning of the black experience as expressed through the writers Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, David Bradley, and others.
Charles Johnson approaches contemporary black literature through the lens of phenomenology. Drawing on such philosophers as Heidegger, Husserl, Satre, and Dufrenne, Johnson addresses the esthetic and epistemological questions surrounding the black experience as expressed by African American authors. In exploring the works of Wright, Toomer, Bradley, and many more, Being and Race enlarges our vision of what fiction’s purpose is and how it arises from our common experiences.
Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is the National Book Awardwinning author of Middle Passage and a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington. A MacArthur fellow, his acclaimed work explores race, identity, culture, and philosophical questions, and his books include Night Hawks, Dr. Kings Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage. In 2002, he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.
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