Oxherding Tale - Hardcover

Johnson, Charles Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253166071 ISBN 13: 9780253166074

Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr, 1982

Synopsis

Son of a slave and a white woman, Andrew Hawkins tries to find freedom as well as a true understanding of his spiritual identity

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From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and professor emeritus at the University of Washington in Seattle. A MacArthur fellow, his fiction includes Night Hawks, Dr. King’s Refrigerator, Dreamer, Faith and the Good Thing, and Middle Passage, for which he won the National Book Award. In 2002 he received the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Seattle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0253166071
• ISBN 13: 9780253166074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176