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Passing the three gates : interviews with Charles Johnson / edited by Jim McWilliams

Author
Johnson, Charles, 1948-
Additional Titles
Passing the 3 gates
Published
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxii, 335 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Reflections on film, philosophy, and fiction: an interview with Charles Johnson (1978) / Ken McCullough -- Charles Johnson (1987) / Nicholas O'Connell -- Being and race: an interview with Charles Johnson (1988) / George Myers, Jr. -- Author navigates uncharted waters: middle passage takes readers on a spirited journey (1990) / M.L. Lyke -- Winner of National Book Award won't be a "voice of black America" (1991) / Peter Monaghan -- The philosopher and the American novel (1991) / Q & A at the California State Library -- The sorcerer's apprentice (1991) / Cyra McFadden -- An interview with Charles Johnson (1992) / Phoebe Bosché -- A life of balance through martial arts (1992) / Tim Allen -- An interview with Charles Johnson (1993) / Jonathan Little -- An interview with Charles Johnson (1993) / Marian Blue -- Charles Johnson: interview (1993) / Linda Davies -- Interviews with northwest writers: Charles Johnson (1993) / Irene Wanner -- An interview with Charles Johnson (1996) / Michael Boccia -- A man of his word (1998) / Beth Grubb -- A conversation with Charles Johnson (1998) / William R. Nash -- The human dimension: an interview with writer-philosopher Charles Johnson (1999) / Charles Mudede -- An interview with Charles Johnson (2002) / Jennifer Levasseur, Kevin Rabalais -- An interview with Charles Johnson (2003) / Jim McWilliams -- Shoulder to the wheel: an interview with Charles Johnson (2003) / John Whalen-Bridge.
Summary
"Jim McWilliams has gathered here the most significant of Charles Johnson's many interviews in a chronological progression, giving an invaluable account of Johnson's development from the late 1970s until the early years of the twenty-first century. The interviews bring up many essential elements of Johnson's life and work: his religious development from the AME Church to Buddhism; the importance to him of family; his emergence out of the civil rights and black power movements, and how his writing responds to both; the importance of his relationship with his mentor John Gardner and his own work as a teacher of creative writing; his interest in phenomenology and philosophical fiction
Capping the collection are two previously unpublished interviews that reflect back upon Johnson's career, even as they look forward to what Johnson calls "Act Three" of his life."--Jacket
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ISBN
9780295802169 ebook
0295802162
0295984384 (acid-free paper)
0295984392 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780295984384
9780295984391
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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