Charles Johnson's Novels: Writing the American Palimpsest

"This is truly a major contribution to African American literary
criticism, and it promises to elevate Johnson to the place in the literary firmament
he so richly deserves." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard
University

Charles Johnson came of age during the Black Arts
Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His fiction bears the imprint of his formal
training as a philosopher and his work as a journalist and cartoonist with a
well-honed interest in political satire. Mentored by the American writer...