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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Literary Criticism; Middle Passage; Charles Johnson; identity; appropriation; African American experience;
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Interrogating Identity, Daniel M. Scott
Interrogating Identity, Daniel M. Scott
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Discusses the structures of identity and the role writing plays in the reconfiguration of the self in Charles Johnson's novel `Middle Passage.' Fundamental assumptions about human and literary identity; Allusion and appropriation of textual authority; Novel's debt to preceding Western writing; Complications of Afro-American experience; Johnson's reconfiguration of writing..