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 ...
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 ...
A satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, this novel juxtaposes American history with real and fictional characters, plus Ree's hilarious commentary on music, philosophy, Islam, Freud, and much more. It was a National Book Award Finalist when it was first published.
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.
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 ...
A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence,
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 ...
Writer Ishmael Reed moved from New York to the Bay Area, ending up teaching at Berkeley and living in Oakland. In this volume he describes his city, providing walking tours (such as the Black Panther Legacy Tour), information on cultural events, a bit of Oakland history--and his stern views on the accomplishments of Mayor Jerry Brown.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
-- 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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
This is the story of Lester Jefferson, a young man of good will, whose repeated attempts to become a part of The Great Society are doomed in advance. Aided, thwarted, and confused by numerous, curious companions, Lester conducts his inevitable search for happiness in a series of absurdist misadventures that begins with the transformation of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The essays in this collection address issues of race and society. Reed pulls no punches, whether he is discussing the way mainstream society views black experience, or when he is writing about people with power or influence, such as George W. Bush, John Ashcroft, or Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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 ...
The overwhelming power of the erotic imagination is brought to full flower in this masterful collection of African-American writings. With pieces from more than seventy writers, "Dark Eros "explores the erotic possibilities as imagined and reported by authors both well-known and emerging. Using the literary to trace the range of the erotic impulse ...
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