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Tables of Contents for I Call Myself an Artist
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
 
Rudolph P. Byrd
Acknowledgments
xv
 
I. Autobiographical Acts
I Call Myself an Artist
3
30
II. Fiction
First Words: Excerpts from the Early Fiction (1965-1968)
33
6
More from Oxherding Tale (1982)
39
4
Kwoon (1991)
43
10
The Writer's Notebook (1992)
53
20
The Work of the World (1998)
73
6
III. Essays and Addresses
Philosophy and Black Fiction (1980)
79
6
Whole Sight: Notes on New Black Fiction (1984)
85
6
Where Fiction and Philosophy Meet (1988)
91
6
Novelists of Memory (1989)
97
12
A Phenomenology of the Black Body (1975-1976, 1993)
109
14
Introduction to John Gardner's On Writers and Writing
123
14
Black Images and Their Global Impact (1993)
137
4
Northwestern Commencement Address, 1994
141
4
Introduction to Mark Twain's What Is Man? (1995)
145
10
Journal Entries on the Death of John Gardner (1982-1983, 1995)
155
10
IV. Reviews and Cultural Criticism
One Meaning of Mo' Better Blues (1991)
165
10
Review of Richard Wright: Works (1991)
175
6
Spike Lee Does the Right Thing (1992)
181
4
Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House (1992)
185
4
Review of Dinesh D'Souza's The End of Racism (1995)
189
4
The King We Left Behind (1996)
193
10
V. Charlie's Pad
A Capsule History of Blacks in Comics (1997)
203
12
Selected Cartoons
215
10
VI. Interviews and Conversations
An Interview with Charles Johnson, Conducted by Jonathan Little (1993)
225
20
Critic, Not Cynic: Charles Johnson Talks with Stanley Crouch (1995)
245
152
VII. Reading Charles Johnson
On Faith and the Good Thing
John McCumber, Philosophy and Hydrology: Situating Discourse in Charles Johnson's Faith and the Good Thing
251
20
On Oxherding Tale
Stanely Crouch, Charles Johnson: Free At Last!
271
8
Vera Kutzinski, Johnson Revises Johnson: Oxherding Tale and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
279
10
Jeffrey B. Leak, Wrestling with Desire: Slavery and Black Masculinity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale
289
16
Rudolph P. Byrd, Oxherding Tale and Siddhartha: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Emergence of a Hidden Tradition
305
14
On Being and Race: Black Writing since 1970
Michael Boccia, Charles Johnson and the Philosopher's Ghost: The Phenomenological Thinking in Being and Race
319
14
On The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Rudolph P. Byrd, It Rests by Changing: Process in The Sorcerer's Apprentice
333
20
On Middle Passage
Daniel M. Scott III, Interrogating Identity: Appropriation and Transformation in Middle Passage
353
16
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, The Phenomenology of the Allmuseri: Charles Johnson and the Subject of the Narrative of Slavery
369
28
Selected Bibliography
397