African American Review

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Articles in Winter 1996 issue of African American Review

• John Gardner as mentor
  by Charles Johnson
• The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre
  by Tejumola Olaniyan
• Introduction
  by Michael Boccia
• Passages from the middle: coloniality and postcoloniality in Charles Johnson's 'Middle Passage.'
  by Brian Fagel
• The gift of the Osuo
  by Charles Johnson
• Reading rigor mortis: offstage violence and excluded middles 'in' Johnson's 'Middle Passage' and Morrison's 'Beloved.'
  by Vincent A. O'Keefe
• 'Sorcery is dialectical:' Plato and Jean Toomer in Charles Johnson's 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice.'
  by Frederick T. Griffiths
• Isadora at sea: misogyny as comic capital in Charles Johnson's 'Middle Passage.'
  by Elizabeth Muther
• The artist as universal mind: Berkeley's influence on Charles Johnson
  by Gary Storhoff
• 'Oxherding Tale' and 'Siddhartha:' philosophy, fiction, and the emergence of a hidden tradition
  by Rudolph P. Byrd
• A selected checklist of works by and about Charles Johnson
• Writing Between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality
  by William Doreski
• Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse
  by John Lowe
• The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American Literature and Culture
  by Wolfgang Karrer
• An interview with Charles Johnson
  by Michael Boccia
• Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture
  by Kimberly Drake