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Conversations with Ishmael Reed

Conversations with Ishmael Reed

Dick, Bruce
Singh, Amritjit
Reed, Ishmael

Paperback

Series: Literary Conversations

Literary FiguresFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 087805815X
ISBN13: 9780878058150
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Dec 1 1995
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.24 Width: 5.95 Depth: 8.91
Language: English
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 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 and African American studies at Ohio University.

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