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Mumbo Jumbo
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A preeminent African-American novelist, essayist, and activist takes an unorthodox look at black and white relations throughout history. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.
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Flight to Canada
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Brilliantly portrayed by a novelist with "a talent for hyperbole and downright yarning unequaled since Mark Twin", (SATURDAY REVIEW), this slave's-eye view of the Civil War exposes America's racial foibles of the past and present with uninhibited humor and panache. "A book that reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with comic rage".--THE ...
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red
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First published in 1974, this highly acclaimed literary achievement exposes in metaphor the hypocrisy by which the contemporary political and social scene simultaneously betrays and characterizes itself.
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From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002
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Ishmael Reed (Editor), Editor * (Editor)
Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip Hopa truly all-inclusive multicultural anthologya literary event which will finally even the playing field. This important collection synthesizes and presents broad swaths of work from poets of all races and ...
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Japanese by spring
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Ishmael Reed
Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black junior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts after tenure and its glorious perks. When Puttbutt's mysterious Japanese tutor, who promises to teach him Japanese by spring, suddenly becomes the school's new president and appoints Puttbutt academic dean, the fun really begins as Puttbutt ...
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The Free-Lance Pallbearers
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Ishmael Reed
The electrifying and controversial first novel from the author since dubbed "the brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain" (Nation). Upon its original publication, it incited controversy among black leaders for the negative depiction of some of its black characters.
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The Terrible Threes
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In the eighth novel of his distinguished career, Ishmael Reed proves that he is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary literature. Sequel to The Terrible Twos, The Terrible Threes is an adventure in the world of offbeat humor and on-target social criticism, a portrait of a fairy-tale land gone frighteningly awry.
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Native-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology
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Gerald Robert Vizenor (Editor), Ishmael Reed (Editor)
This is one of a series of brief anthologies designed for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. The series aims to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature. Each text is organized chronlogically by genre and represents a wide ...
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Reckless Eyeballing
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Ishmael Reed
-- All around New York the "Flower Phantom" has been assaulting prominent feminists, tying them up and shaving their heads, and no one knows who the menace could be. Meanwhile, Ian Ball, a black playwright, decides to go to any lengths to get his new play on Broadway. Is there a connection? Reckless Eyeballing is a farcical whodunit and biting ...
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Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections
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Ishmael Reed
A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence,
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Airing Dirty Laundry
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Nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, Ishmael Reed now returns with a boisterous and irreverent collection of nonfiction writing. "Always provocative, sometimes infuriating, this collection reminds us that the purpose of art is not to confirm and coddle but to provoke and confront".-- The New York Times Book Review.
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Writin' is Fightin': Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper
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Ishmael Reed
An extraordinary collection of editorials, book reviews, and brilliant, boisterous essays from National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ishamel Reed. Assaulting the social, political, and artistic ills of our times, this is Reed at his polemical best.
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Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings
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Reginald Martin (Editor), Lenard D Moore (Afterword by), Ishmael Reed (Introduction by)
A collection of African American erotic literature includes poetry, fiction, essays by such authors as Ntozake Shange, Lenard D. Moore, Lurlynn Franklin, and Liv Wright.
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Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience: Short Fiction from Then to Now
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Ishmael Reed (Editor), Carla Blank
Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed-with the assistance of Carla Blank-has assembled an anthology that includes work ranging from bear stories of the Tlingits to African-American folklore to the hip-hop writings of Kevin Powell. Pow-Wow is the sequel to Reeds From Totems to Hip-Hop: A ...
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Hispanic-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology
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Dr. Nicolas Kanellos (Editor), Ishmael Reed (Editor)
This is one of a series of brief anthologies designed for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. The series aims to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature. Each text is organized chronlogically by genre and represents a wide ...
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The Terrible Twos
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Reed creates a wickedly funny social critique of everything American -- from commercialism to Congress to religious cults by merging influences from Rastafarian mythology with Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Christmas to Christmas, 1980 to 1990: the "Bosses" now own America's Presidency (filled by a former male model) and Congress and Religion as ...
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Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War
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Ishmael Reed
An irreverent, brilliant, politically charged barrage of essays aimed with Reed's famous vitriol and wit at the perpetrators of America's war on blacks. African Americans have been at war with some elements of the white population from the very beginning. In this collection of essays, his first since Airing Dirty Laundry in 1993, Reed explores ...
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Conversations with Ishmael Reed
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Bruce Dick (Editor), Amritjit Singh (Editor), Ishmael Reed
Conversations with Ishmael Reed edited by Bruce Dick and Amritjit Singh As a fiercely independent thinker, Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo, Flight to Canada, Reckless Eyeballing, and other works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, is often in conflict with the culture that appears to have a compulsive need to cage its artists and intellectuals ...
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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
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Ishmael Reed
Reed's 1969 masterpiece is a savage massacre of the Wild West that could havebeen.
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New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006
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Ishmael Reed
One of the founding fathers of multi-cultural studies, award-winning writer Ishmael Reed first came to the attention of the literary world as a poet, and despite success as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and recording artist, has never ceased to be a poet. He delves into spiritual and political waters with his own unexpected and uniquely ...
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The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990
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Ishmael Reed (Editor), Shawn Wong (Editor), Kate Trueblood (Editor)
Since 1976 the Before Columbus Foundation has been devoted to the task of redefining our notion of "mainstream" American literature to reflect this country's multicultural, multi-ethnic richness and diversity. Since 1980 it has sponsored the American Book Awards. This anthology includes 30 selections from a decade of award-winning fiction.
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Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
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A collection of essays--by Americans of many races and backgrounds--on multiculturalism.
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The Reed Reader
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Ishmael Reed
A generous selection from the playful, irreverent, and controversial work of Ishmael Reed, one of the greatest African American writers. Ishmael Reed has been described as cavorting "like a black bull in the china shop of Western culture," and The Reed Reader is a collection of the sharp, jagged results of his rampage. In it, one of the most ...
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The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990
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Ishmael Reed (Editor), Gundar Strads (Editor), J J Phillips (Editor)
This landmark volume collects a decade's worth of work from the American Book Awards, and in the process redefines our sense of what constitutes the "mainstream" of American poetry. Includes the work of more than 50 poets on a wide range of themes, diction and geographical origins.
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Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
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A collection of essays--by Americans of many races and backgrounds--on multiculturalism.
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