Charles Johnson Ordre des livres (chronologique)

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New Orleans im Jahre 1830: Rutherford Calhoun, ein freigelassener Schwarzer, heuert auf der Flucht vor einer allzu heiratswilligen Frau auf einem Sklavenschiff an. Er ist ein kleiner Ganove, hellwach und gebildet, treulos und leicht zu beeindrucken, der sich ständig zwischen alle Stühle setzt. Als das Schiff mit einer Fracht Sklaven samt ihrer geheimnisvollen Gottheit von der afrikanischen Küste ablegt, nimmt das Unheil seinen Lauf: Die Sklaven rebellieren, die Mannschaft meutert gegen den verwachsenen Schurken von Kapitän. Am Ende aber findet sich Rutherford in einem Happy-End wieder, das sich gewaschen hat. »Schlimm genug, daß »Die Überfahrt« die Schande der Sklaverei in eine richtig spannende klassische Seegeschichte integriert. Schlimm genug, wie Johnson einen wachen kleinen Gauner in einem Meer von Räuberei, Geheimnis und Gefahr zappeln läßt. Aber es kommt noch besser… »Die Überfahrt« ist komische wie »Gullivers Reisen«, aufregend wie »Die Schatzinsel«, gleichnishaft wie »Robinson Crusoe« und genauso eindrücklich wie alle diese Bücher zusammen.« »David Bradley«

From the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage , a fearless fictional portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his pivotal moment in American history. Set against the tensions of Civil Rights era America, Dreamer is a remarkable fictional excursion into the last two years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, when the political and personal pressures on this country's most preeminent moral leader were the greatest. While in Chicago for his first northern campaign against poverty and inequality, King encounters Chaym Smith, whose startling physical resemblance to King wins him the job of official stand-in. Matthew Bishop, a civil rights worker and loyal follower of King, is given the task of training the smart and deeply cynical Smith for the job. In doing so, Bishop must face the issue of what makes one man great while another man can only stand in for greatness. Provocative, heartfelt, and masterfully rendered, Charles Johnson confirms yet again that he is one of the great treasures of modern American literature. Dr. Charles Johnson is a novelist, screenwriter, essayist, professional cartoonist and the Pollock Professor of English at the University of Washington. He is the author of more than sixteen books, including the PEN/Faulkner nominated story collection The Sorcerer's Apprentice and the novel Middle Passage , for which he won the National Book Award.

A lost modern classic, this wildly genre-bending naval adventure is a towering work of American literature and perfect for fans of Colson Whitehead and Marlon James

In these eight fables and allegorical tales, the author writes of the events of this world as influenced by spiritual or strongly cultural forces

One night in the antebellum South, a slaveowner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking Madeira and playing cards. Finally, too besotted to face their respective wives, they drunkenly decide to switch places in each other's beds. The result is a hilarious imbroglio and an offspring, Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes the Oxherding Tale, a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, oppression - and the African-American spirit - in the Old South. Through sexual escapades, picaresque adventures, and philosophical inquiry, young Hawkins walks the line between white and black worlds and comments wryly on marriage, human nature, slave catchers, and culture along the way.