{"id":39623,"date":"2015-01-22T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39623"},"modified":"2015-01-23T18:31:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:31:01","slug":"oxherding-tale-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39623","title":{"rendered":"Oxherding Tale: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.biz\/Oxherding-Tale\/Charles-Johnson\/9780743264495\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Oxherding Tale: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scribner (an imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonandschuster.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simon &amp; Schuster<\/a>)<br \/>\n1982<br \/>\n208 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780743264495<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 9780743277419<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxherdingtale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Johnson<\/a><\/strong>, Pollock Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.biz\/Oxherding-Tale\/Charles-Johnson\/9780743264495\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net\/book_images\/cvr9780743264495_9780743264495_hr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One night in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_United_States_(1789%E2%80%931849)\" target=\"_blank\">antebellum<\/a> South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives, they switch places in each other&#8217;s beds. The result is a hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/imbroglio\" target=\"_blank\">imbroglio<\/a> and an offspring &#8212; Andrew Hawkins, whose life becomes <em>Oxherding Tale<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Through sexual escapades, picaresque adventures, and philosophical inquiry, Hawkins navigates white and black worlds and comments wryly on human nature along the way. Told with pure genius, <em>Oxherding Tale<\/em> is a deliciously funny, bitterly ironic account of slavery, racism, and the human spirit; and it reveals the author as a great talent with even greater humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxherding Tale: A Novel Scribner (an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster) 1982 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780743264495 eBook ISBN: 9780743277419 Charles Johnson, Pollock Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462,6940,20],"tags":[3485,19067,10517],"class_list":["post-39623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-charles-johnson","tag-scribner","tag-simon-schuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}