Conversations with Ishmael Reed (Literary Conversations Series)

Dick, Bruce

ISBN 10: 087805815X / ISBN 13: 9780878058150

Editore: University Press of Mississippi, 1995

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• Titolo: Conversations with Ishmael Reed (Literary Conversations Series)
• Editore: University Press of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 087805815X
• ISBN 13: 9780878058150
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good

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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 in worn-out cliches and labels. As a writer who experiments in many forms and genres, and one who embraces postmodernism rather than protest and naturalism, Reed defies popular conceptions of what American writers, particularly black American male writers, should be or do. In this collection of candid interviews, Reed discusses how critics, especially from the northeastern establishment, have consistently marginalized African American writers by placing them in the "either-or thing of Christianity and Communism." As he does in his writing, Reed uses invective, satire, and humor to show how those people judging American literature "have made no attempt to understand recent American writing." Bruce Dick is a professor of English and African American studies at Appalachian State University. Amritjit Singh is a professor of English at Rhode Island College and co-editor of Postcolonial Theory and the United States, published by University Press of Mississippi in 2000.

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