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Title: Soulcatcher: And other stories by Charles Johnson ISBN: 0-15-601112-3 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Soulcatcher
Comment: This book presented 12 powerful talkes about slavery that impacted me in a way were i could not believe what people when through back when slavery began. It showed the terrors and the savagery of slavery that no one can forget. It hit me with the realism of what effects and causes of slavery and i am glad that it has come to a point where slavery is abolished.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read Collection of Slave Narratives
Comment: For a class in contemporary literature, I read Charles Johnson's novel, Middle Passage. The novel provoked a big response in me, big enough that I contacted the author to discuss the book. The book and the discussion piqued an interest in me to read more novels that reflect my ancestors' painful time in history.
When I purchased Soulcatcher, I was excited to find a collection of stories that bring many voices together to tell of the horrible tales of slavery. Each story was poignant and painful to read, but each enlightened me on the realism of an era where my ancestors were treated like the basic of animals.
Each of the 12 stories in this stellar collection provokes attention to a time in history that tends to get swept under the rug; however Johnson, with his tight, and at times, tongue-in-cheek, literary style, painfully brings it out with stories like, "The Transmission," a story about a boy's despairing journey on a slaveship and "Martha's Dilemma," a story told by Martha Washington about the care of her slaves after the death of her husband to a boy chained in a slaveship.
This collection is a must to everyone. These stories are testaments to a reality that won't be forgotten, and Johnson vividly portrays the horrific within beautiful prose.
Shon Bacon
Rating: 5
Summary: An inventive collection of tales
Comment: "Soulcatcher and Other Stories," by Charles Johnson, is a contemporary collection of stories that brings to life the era of African-American slavery. Johnson uses various techniques throughout the book: dialogue, monologue, third person narration, diary entries, a letter. This variety of form helps keep the book interesting throughout.
Johnson deals, either directly or indirectly, with a number of important names from U.S. and Caribbean history: Frederick Douglass, Martha Washington, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and others. The topics of the individual stories are varied; they include passage on a slave transport ship, black soldiers fighting for the British during the Revolutionary War, the pursuit of a fugitive slave, and more. My favorite story, "Poetry and Politics," is an intriguing fictional dialogue between groundbreaking African-American poet Phillis Wheatley and her mistress.
Overall, this is a solid collection which would, in my opinion, be good both for classroom use (high school and college) and for individual reading. My recommendation: read it alongside relevant works by such 18th and 19th century authors as Douglass, Wheatley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and others.
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Title: Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing by Charles Richard Johnson ISBN: 0743243242 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: MIDDLE PASSAGE by Charles R. Johnson ISBN: 0684855887 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Oxherding Tale by Charles Johnson ISBN: 0452275032 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: DREAMER: A NOVEL by Charles Johnson ISBN: 0684854430 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Tar Baby by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0452264790 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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