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Middle Passage Johnson

a synthesized culture, one made up of a variety of cultural and literary pools, from the works of Plato and Homer to those of Swift with some African folklore thrown in besides. Our wily trickster Calhoun admits he is a petty thief, but this is not a stereotypes black male. This trickster compares his capacities to Odysseus “And she, so much slimmer-pulling the gown over her head-was to me a figure of such faint-inducing grace any Odysseus would have swallowed the ocean whole, if need be, to swim to her side” (Johnson 207).

Calhoun also admits to being something of a liar and womanizer but by the end of the story he is a humbled and worn man who accepts home and family as his one means for a future with meaning. Unlike conventional slave narrative which distance us, the style

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Middle Passage Johnson. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 10:30, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1685962.html