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Article: Soulcatcher and Other Stories.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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Charles Johnson. Soulcatcher and Other Stories. San Diego: Harvest Original, 2001. 125 pp. $12.00
Charles Johnson's first collection of short stories, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1986), contains eight "tales and conjurations." The stories had been published in several venues over the course of seven years (1977-1984) and differed significantly in their subject matter. Two stories are set in slavery-one involving a slave who acts out his benign master's unspoken and most violent desires, and the other involving two former slaves, a father and a son, who learn to fight the "old slave reflex" against emotional investment and to "surrender" to the sorcery of familial ...