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Ishmael Reed

Autor(a) de Mumbo Jumbo

65+ Works 3,382 Membros 39 Críticas 14 Favorited

About the Author

Poet and novelist Ismael Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on February 22, 1938 and grew up in Buffalo, New York. After attending the State University of New York at Buffalo, he moved to New York City, where he became a co-founder of the East Village Other, a journal of experimental writing. mostrar mais From New York, he moved to Berkeley, California, and started the Yardbird Publishing Company. Reed's fiction draws upon myth, magic, and ritual to produce a literature that attempts to be larger than life. He has been called an ironist, whose explorations of United States history in general and African American history in particular reveal deep scars in the culture that no amount of technology can heal. Reed tries to incorporate multimedia and nonlinear techniques into his writing style. He has defended his eclectic techniques with spirit, however: "Many people call my fiction muddled, crazy, incoherent because I've attempted in fiction the techniques and forms painters, dancers, film makers, musicians in the West have taken for granted for at least 50 years, and the artists of many other cultures, for thousands of years." His other published books include: six collections of poetry, including: New and Collected Poems, 1964-2007; eight collections of essays, most recently Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers (2010); Gethsemane Park; The Reed Reader (2000); Blues City: A Walk in Oakland (2003); and six plays, collected by Dalkey Archive Press as Ishmael Reed, The Plays (2009). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Ishmael Reed

Mumbo Jumbo (1972) 1,023 exemplares
Flight to Canada (1976) 332 exemplares
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969) 250 exemplares
The Freelance Pallbearers (1968) 174 exemplares
The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974) 137 exemplares
Japanese by Spring (1993) 130 exemplares
The Terrible Twos (1982) 123 exemplares
Reckless Eyeballing (1986) 104 exemplares
Airing Dirty Laundry (1993) 70 exemplares
Blues City: A Walk in Oakland (2003) 63 exemplares
The Terrible Threes (1989) 61 exemplares
The Reed Reader (2000) 56 exemplares
Malcolm and Me (2020) — Autor — 42 exemplares
Shrovetide in Old New Orleans (1978) 40 exemplares
Juice! (2011) 31 exemplares
New and Collected Poems 1964-2007 (2007) 21 exemplares
Chattanooga; poems (1973) 19 exemplares
The Complete Muhammad Ali (2015) 18 exemplares
New and Collected Poems (1988) 17 exemplares
Conversations with Ishmael Reed (1995) 14 exemplares
19 Necromancers From Now: An Anthology of Original American Writings for the 1970s (1970) — Editor, introduction; Autor — 11 exemplares
Ishmael Reed: The Plays (2009) 11 exemplares
Conjugating Hindi (2018) 10 exemplares
Calafia, the California Poetry (1979) 9 exemplares
A Secretary to the Spirits (1978) 9 exemplares
Contemplación temeraria (1991) 4 exemplares
Quilt 1 (1981) 3 exemplares
Y'bird (1978) 2 exemplares
Ishmael Reed (1993) 2 exemplares
Life Among the Aryans (2022) 2 exemplares
The Fool Who Thought Too Much (2020) 2 exemplares
Quilt 3 (1982) 2 exemplares
Black Hollywood Unchained (2015) 2 exemplares
Yardbird Reader Volume Five (1976) 2 exemplares
Yardbird Reader 1 exemplar
Y'Bird Magazine 1 exemplar
Mambo dżambo 1 exemplar
The Slave Who Loved Caviar (2023) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Up from Slavery (1901) — Introdução, algumas edições4,215 exemplares
Soul on Ice (1968) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,689 exemplares
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938) — Introdução, algumas edições739 exemplares
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Contribuidor — 593 exemplares
The Black Poets (1983) — Contribuidor — 353 exemplares
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Contribuidor — 324 exemplares
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contribuidor — 169 exemplares
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contribuidor — 159 exemplares
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (2000) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel (2022) — Contribuidor — 130 exemplares
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
The State of the Language [1980] (1980) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground (2013) — Contribuidor — 79 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor (2006) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2019 (2019) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (2016) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology (1975) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Soulscript: Afro-American Poetry (1970) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Black and Conservative (1966) — Introdução, algumas edições25 exemplares
For Neruda, For Chile: An International Anthology (1975) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (2017) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the 70's (1973) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Race Traitor 10 (1999) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Antaeus No. 21/22, Spring/Summer 1976 - Special Essay Issue (1976) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky (2016) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
New World Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2/3 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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"The Novel [...] organized systematically and formally to short-circuit an older type of social and historical interpretation which it perpetually holds out and withdraws. [...] A realism that seeks History by way of our own pop images and simulacra of that history, which itself remains forever out of reach." — Fredric Jameson

There was a moment in the late 20th century in which the pre-eminent progressive author (Reed, Doctorow, perhaps also Coover, though I’m loath / to file him in that pigeonhole) was writing bad-on-purpose novels composed entirely of plot — all fat, in the sense that the adverb is excess fat in a sentence, I maintain 'plot' functions like this in the novel — the reading of which is providing a surplus value of pleasure derived from an extra-textual (i.e. romantic political) association in easy sympathy with a heaping of Catch-22 exclamation-mark humor. The difference between this kind of writing and my sympathy with that mantra (from Shelia Heti): "I should put a lot of shit in the play," perhaps comes down to (a different) "Argument From Degree."… (mais)
 
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Joe.Olipo | 12 outras críticas | Jan 1, 2024 |
An ad promises Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt III that he will learn the language of Japanese by spring. He had started taking lessons to learn Japanese in the Air Force Academy in the mid 1960s. Only the lessons ended after he had been expelled from the Academy. In the beginning the reader has no idea why Puttbutt has been expelled, but hang on! That story is coming and it's a doozy. In present day, Puttbutt teaches English at the Jack London College. His only ambition in life is to make tenure, but he is a miserable failure. [As an aside, I can tell you that tenure is not all that it is cracked up to be.] But anyway, Puttbutt is so desperate for this recognition that he jumps on the latest support bandwagon that will further his cause, even if it means derogatory talk about his own race and culture.
Reed's tongue in cheek commentary on institutional endowments was pretty funny. A student can get away with murder because his father practically funds the entire college. Where have we seen that before? Be prepared for other snarky commentary on political hotbed topics like the LA riots and the beating of Rodney King, nationalism, racism, any ism you can think of. Speaking of racism, here is a snarky scene to ponder: a professor is exclaiming that racism has never existed on the Jack London College campus while a fraternity is having its annual "Slave Day." I was tempted to play a drinking game with the words nationalism and Yoruba.
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SeriousGrace | 1 outra crítica | Dec 25, 2023 |
For me, the most accessible of all of Reed's novels. I love his poetry.
 
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Mark_Feltskog | 1 outra crítica | Dec 23, 2023 |
Read this for class. It was interesting and kind of frustrating. I never understood satire in books and this was no exception. I just didn't get it. However, I did end up enjoying the story somewhat. However, it did have something I really liked. The title of the book is also a book in the book. The main character uses a book called Japanese by Spring to learn Japanese. This is just something I enjoy in books, it makes a nice little circle.
 
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HeartofGold900 | 1 outra crítica | Dec 3, 2022 |

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Obras
65
Also by
40
Membros
3,382
Popularidade
#7,534
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
39
ISBN
174
Línguas
6
Marcado como favorito
14

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