Further Reading
- Asim, Jabari, "Celebrating the Vision of Martin Luther King," Washington Post Book World (12 April 1998): 1, 10. (Asim describes Dreamer as a novel of ideas that addresses issues of individual identity and the nature of the self, commenting that the work provides “what we've come to expect from Johnson: a tale that's complex, richly told and open-ended.”)
- Bernstein, Richard, "Imagining a Cain to Shadow Dr. King," New York Times (8 April 1998): E11. (Bernstein discusses the theme of the doppelganger in Dreamer, noting that despite Johnson's skilled writing style, the novel's ending is ultimately disappointing.)
- Cohen, Roger, "Middle Passage and Morgan Win," New York Times (29 November 1990): C22. (Cohen reports on Johnson's receipt of the 1990 National Book Award for Fiction for The Middle Passage.)
- Datcher, Michael, "Speech, after Long Silence," Washington Post Book World 27, no. 34 (24 August 1997): 11. (Datcher asserts that Black Men Speaking is a diverse collection of writings on the African-American experience that are noticeably uneven in quality.)
- Keneally, Thomas, "Misadventures in the Slave Trade," New York Times (1 July 1990): E8. (Keneally discusses how The Middle Passage explores the continuing legacy of slavery in modern American culture.)
- McFarland, Dennis, "The Secret Sharer," New York Times (5 April 1998): E14. (McFarland observes that Dreamer is a lively tale that offers insight into the lasting legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.)
- Retman, Sonnet, "‘Nothing Was Lost in the Masquerade’: The Protean Performance of Genre and Identity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale," African American Review 33, no. 3 (fall 1999): 417. (Retman describes how Oxherding Tale functions as a fictional slave narrative.)
- Seymour, Gene, Review of Dreamer, by Charles Johnson, Nation 266, no. 15 (27 April 1998): 27. (Seymour praises Dreamer as an inventive and insightful work of fiction that addresses issues of identity.)
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