Charles Johnson,
University of Washington professor and author ("Middle
Passage"), has recently received an Academy Award in Literature
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
(1990)
Johnson...
offers a
profound,
lovely
rumination on
the state of,
and
practitioners
of,
contemporary
black American
fiction...
Absolutely
approachable,
absolutely
essential
criticism for
any avid
reader of
serious
fiction. Booklist
Category
General
Literary
Criticism
Scholarship,
General
Writing and
Reading
Social Sciences
Contributors
ISBN:
0253205379
Publisher:
Indiana
University Press
Other
editions
include: Being and
Race: Black
Writing Since
1970
(Bloomington,
IN: Indiana
University
Press, 1988),
l32 pp. Being and
Race: Black
Writing Since
1970
(British edition
by Serpent''s
Tail, March
1988). Being and
Race: Black
Writing Since
1970
(Indiana
University
Press, 1988),
paperback
edition
published in
January, 1990.