Charles Johnson's Middle Passage:Fictionalizing History and Historicizing Fiction

Abstract

Charles Johnson's Middle Passageis a classical slave narrative. By fictionalizing the slave narrative that looks like truth and as such the novel has deliberately been made the historical operation that is drawn from the real image of nineteenth century. The political ideas are about slavery, freedom, and contemporary status of African American people that Rutherford Calhoun fictionalizes. By fictionalizing the historical events Rutherford Calhoun presents that history once it takes form as words, canbe view as a fiction. By presenting Allmuseri, a miner group, lacks a unity of being. They dislike the property, simple to put on and feel guilt if they do wrong. Allmuseri is the minor community of black people in America. They are in search of their identity, history and existence not for their own but for all. They are concerned about their past that is compared in present and try to compare apply in the future. Therefore, the novel provides us as a fictionalization of history that is made on the base of historical facts.