Juice!: A Novel - Brossura

Reed, Ishmael

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ISBN 10: 1564786374 ISBN 13: 9781564786371

Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2011

Riassunto

In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpson wore in court the day he was acquitted, and it now stands as both an artifactin their “Trial of the Century” exhibit and a symbol of the American media’s endless hunger for the criminal and the celebrity. This event serves as a launching point for Ishmael Reed’s Juice!, a novelistic commentary on the post-Simpson American media frenzy from one of the most controversial figures in American literature today. Through Paul Blessings—a censored cartoonist suffering from diabetes—and his cohorts—serving as stand-ins for the various mediums of art—Ishmael Reed argues that since 1994, “O. J. has become a metaphor for things wrong with culture and politics.” A lament for the death of print media, the growth of the corporation, and the process of growing old, Juice! serves as a comi-tragedy, chronicling the increased anxieties of “post-race” America.

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Recensione

Seemingly tired of arguments about 'identity politics', and being forced "to rally around the flag of black brotherhood', Reed's mischievous energetic prose transforms Juice! into an engaging, troubling and innovative novel. --Times Literary Supplement

L'autore

Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books. He is also the publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, and lecturer. In 2003, he received the coveted Otto Award for Political Theatre.

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• Editore: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1564786374
• ISBN 13: 9781564786371
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336