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 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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