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Brilliantly portrayed by a novelist with a talent for hyperbole and
downright yarning unequaled since Mark Twain, (Saturday Review),
this slave's-eye view of the Civil War exposes America's racial
foibles of the past and present with uninhibited humor and
panache.Mixing history, fantasy, political reality, and comedy,
Ishmael Reed spins the tale of three runaway slaves and the master
determined to catch them. His on-target parody of fugitive slave
narratives and other literary forms includes a hero who boards a
jet bound for Canada; Abraham Lincoln waltzing through slave
quarters to the tune of Hello, Dolly; and a plantation mistress
entranced by TV's Beecher Hour. Filled with insights into the
political consciences (or lack thereof) of both blacks and whites,
Flight to Canada confirms Reed's status as a great writer (James
Baldwin).A demonized Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that reinvents the
particulars of slavery in America with comic rage. -- The New York
Times Book ReviewWears the mantle of Baldwin and Ellison like a
high-powered Flip Wilson in drag...a terrifically funny book. --
Baltimore Sun
Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising
interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography,
film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and
re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip
hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of
spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans
Erizku's career, blending his studio practice with his work as an
in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New
Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features
his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons, such as Solange,
Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the
New York Times, "It's important for me to create confident,
powerful, downright regal images of Black people." Featuring essays
by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James,
and writer Doreen St. Felix, and interviews with the artist by Urs
Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and
arresting testament to the artist's tremendous power and
originality.
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The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel
John A. Williams; Foreword by Ishmael Reed; Introduction by Merve Emre
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'A great writer' James Baldwin 'Part vision, part satire, part
farce ... a wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of
fiction and witchcraft' The New York Times A plague is spreading
across 1920s America, racing from New Orleans to New York. It's an
epidemic of free expression, carried by black artists, and its
symptoms are an uncontrollable urge to dance, sing, laugh and jive.
The state will stop at nothing to suppress the outbreak, but, deep
in the heart of Harlem, private eye and Vodum priest Papa LaBas has
other ideas - and, possibly, the key to everything. A freewheeling,
explosive blend of jazz, ragtime, ancient myth, magic and
conspiracy thriller, this anarchic postmodern classic is a satire
for our times.
Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100
other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed's The Complete
Muhammad Ali is more than just a biography - it is a fascinating
portrait of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. An
honest, balanced portrayal of Ali, the book includes voices that
have been omitted from other books. It charts Ali's evolution from
Black Nationalism to a universalism, but does not discount the
Nation of Islam and Black Nationalism's important influence on his
intellectual development. Filipino American author Emil Guillermo
speaks about how The Thrilla In Manila brought the Philippines into
the 20th century. Fans of Muhammad Ali, boxing fans, and those
interested in modern African American history and the Nation of
Islam will be fascinated by this biography by an accomplished
American author.
A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a
long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize
nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the
Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including
Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan.
Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous
adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London
and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People's
Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young musician hopes to
"find himself." But this small sliver of a country in West Africa,
recently freed from British colonial rule, is thrown into turmoil
with the discovery of cobanium-a radioactive mineral 500 times more
powerful than uranium, making it irresistible for greedy
speculators, grifters, and charlatans. Overnight, outsiders descend
upon the sleepy capital city looking for "a piece of the action."
When a plot to assassinate Guanaya's leader is discovered, Jimmy
Jay-a dead ringer for the Prime Minister-is enlisted in a counter
scheme to foil the would-be coup. He will travel to America with
half of Guanaya's cabinet ministers to meet with the President of
the United States and address the UN General Assembly, while the
rest of the cabinet will remain in Guanaya with the real Prime
Minister. What could go wrong? Everything. Set in the 1980s, this
smart, funny, dazzlingly brilliant novel is a literary delight-and
the final gift from an American literary legend.
California is still the world's biggest hideout. The only thing
more western is the Pacific Ocean, where, if the Big One happens,
California might find a home at the bottom. One of those hiding out
is Peter Bowman, a former army brat, and lecturer at Woodrow Wilson
Community College, who is being hunted for a quality most men would
crave. But for Bowman, nicknamed Boa, it has become burdensome.
When an opportunity comes, he has to choose between becoming
financially solvent or exposing himself to his pursuers. Along the
way, he runs into some memorable characters both in reality and in
his dreams, including Ishmael Reed. In Ishmael Reed's Conjugating
Hindi, stories, histories and myths of different cultures are mixed
and sampled. Modern issues like gentrification addressed. It is the
closest that a fiction writer has gotten to the hip-hop form on the
page. Once again, Ishmael Reed has pioneered a new form. If his
first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, was an early Afro-Futurist
novel, Mumbo Jumbo recognized as "a graphic novel before we used
the term" (according to Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo
Jefferson), Yellow Back Radio Broke Down Blazing Saddles's
"important precursor," Flight To Canada his "Neo Slave Narrative,"
a concept that he coined-Conjugating Hindi is his global novel. One
that crosses all borders.
All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved
Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These
runaways, having found their freedom, established their own
communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new
identities. Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish-American term for these
fugitive former slaves, is a new series of photographic portraits
of their descendants. From Brazil, Colombia, the Caribbean islands
and Central America, as far as the southern United States,
elaborate masquerades are staged that celebrate and keep alive the
history and memory of African slaves and their creole or mixed-race
descendants. Stock characters are portrayed in costume, or in
grotesque or satirical representations. A huge variety of African
tribal dress, wild ritual regalia and shimmering Mardi Gras outfits
feature in breathtaking succession. Vividly coloured silks and
cottons combine with woven fibres, leaves, feathers, and bodypaint;
props include emblems of slavery and slavemasters - ropes, sticks,
guns and machetes. These photographs record real people whose
collective sense of memory, folk history and imagination
dramatically challenges our expectations. Charles Freger's work has
established a large and growing following among connoisseurs of
contemporary photography, defining a new genre of documentary
portraiture that extends and deepens our sense of the human past
and the present.
Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the
overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts after tenure and
its glorious perks (including a house in the Oakland Hills). He
spends most of his time trying to divine the ideological climate of
the school and obligingly adapting his beliefs to it. When
Puttbutt's mysterious Japanese tutor, who promises to teach him
Japanese by spring, suddenly becomes the school's new president and
appoints Puttbutt as academic dean, the fun really begins--for
Puttbutt sets out to stir things up and settle old scores.
Turning every contemporary political and social movement on its
head--from feminism to nationalism to jingoism--this boistrois and
irreverent novel manages to be by turns hilarious and totally
serious.
"One of the funniest satires of university politics I've ever
read. Ishmael Reed is funnier than Norman Mailer or Gore Vidal."
--Leslie Marmon Silko
"Reed is, as always, an American original; a wiseguy whose
wisdom is the real thing," --The Boston Sunday Globe
The definitive guide to a major African American poet. This volume
promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's
unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice
in American poetry. Hernton was a cofounder of the Umbra Poets
Workshop; a participant in the Black Arts Movement, R. D. Laing's
Kingsley Hall, and the Antiuniversity of London; and a teacher at
Oberlin College who counted amongst his friends bell hooks, Toni
Morrison, and Odetta. As a pioneer in the field of Black Studies,
Hernton developed a theoretical and practical pedagogy with lasting
impact on generations of students. He may be best known as an
anti-sexist sociologist, following in the footsteps of W.E.B. Du
Bois, but Hernton viewed himself, above all, as a poet. This volume
includes a generous selection of Hernton's previously published
poems, from classics like the often anthologized "The Distant Drum"
to the visionary epic The Coming of Chronos to the House of
Nightsong, reprinted in full for the first time since 1964,
alongside uncollected and unpublished material from the Calvin C.
Hernton papers at Ohio University, a new critical introduction, and
detailed notes, chronology, and bibliography. [sample poem] The
Distant Drum I am not a metaphor or symbol. This you hear is not
the wind in the trees. Nor a cat being maimed in the street. I am
being maimed in the street It is I who weep, laugh, feel pain or
joy. Speak this because I exist. This is my voice These words are
my words, my mouth Speaks them, my hand writes. I am a poet. It is
my fist you hear beating Against your ear.
In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have
invited a diverse group of informed and accomplished writers, both
women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-standing
bigotry on Broadway towards many different ethnic minorities. How
do intellectuals and scholars feel about how members of their
ethnic groups are portrayed on Broadway? How would we know? Very
few of them have the power to rate which plays and musicals are
worthy and which are flops, and above all, be heard or read. The
American critical fraternity is an exclusive club. In this
hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a
diverse group of informed and accomplishes writers, both women and
men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-standing bigotry
on Broadway towards many different ethnic minorities. Contributors
include Lonely Christopher, Tommy Curry, Jack Foley, Emil
Guillermo, Claire J. Harris, Yuri Kageyama, Soraya McDonald, Nancy
Mercado, Aimee Phan, Betsy Theobald Richards, Shawn Wong, David
Yearsley, and the editors. Under review are Madame Butterfly, the
Irving Berlin songbook, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Miss Saigon,
Flower Drum Song, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Color Purple,
The Book of Mormon, West Side Story and Hamilton.
A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a
long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize
nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the
Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including
Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan.
Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous
adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London
and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People's
Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young musician hopes to
"find himself." But this small sliver of a country in West Africa,
recently freed from British colonial rule, is thrown into turmoil
with the discovery of cobanium-a radioactive mineral 500 times more
powerful than uranium, making it irresistible for greedy
speculators, grifters, and charlatans. Overnight, outsiders descend
upon the sleepy capital city looking for "a piece of the action."
When a plot to assassinate Guanaya's leader is discovered, Jimmy
Jay-a dead ringer for the Prime Minister-is enlisted in a counter
scheme to foil the would-be coup. He will travel to America with
half of Guanaya's cabinet ministers to meet with the President of
the United States and address the UN General Assembly, while the
rest of the cabinet will remain in Guanaya with the real Prime
Minister. What could go wrong? Everything. Set in the 1980s, this
smart, funny, dazzlingly brilliant novel is a literary delight-and
the final gift from an American literary legend.
In Black Hollywood Unchained, Ishmael Reed gathers an impressive
group of scholars, critics, intellectuals, and artist to examine
and respond to the contemporary portrayals of Blacks in films.
Using the 2012 release of the film Django Unchained as the focal
point of much of the discussion, these essays and reviews provide a
critical perspective on the challenges facing filmmakers and actors
when confronted with issues on race and the historical portrayal of
African American characters. Reed also addresses the black
community's perceptiveness as discerning and responsible consumers
of film, theatre, art, and music. Contributors to this collection
are: Jill Nelson, Amiri Baraka, Cecil Brown, Halifu Osumare,
Houston A. Baker, Tony Medina, Herb Boyd, Jerry Ward, Ruth
Elizabeth Burks, Art Burton, Justin Desmangles, Jesse Douglass,
Jack Foley, Joyce A. Joyce, C. Leigh McInnis, Heather Russell,
Harriette Surovell, Kathryn Takara, and Al Young.
A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times
and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and
domestic violence,
One of the founding fathers of multi-cultural studies, Ishmael Reed
first came to the attention of the literary world as a poet, and
despite success as a novelist, playwright, essayist, and recording
artist, has never ceased to be a poet. He delves into spiritual and
political waters with his own unexpected and uniquely powerful
voice.
"New and Collected Poems, 1966-2006 captures four decades of Reed's
inimitable verse, a visionary journey from Chattanooga to New York,
from Africa to Oakland. In language that is pointed, innovative,
and profound, Reed weaves politics and war with Yoruba and Jazz,
and takes on American culture, from prejudice to Pepsi to George W.
Bush.
In this important and long-awaited volume, one of America's most
esteemed and intrepid poets, whose "Beware Do Not Read This Poem"
has been cited by Gale Research as one of about 20 poems most
frequently studied in literature courses, shows why he has helped
define our cultural forefront from the '60s to today.
An irreverent, brilliant, politically charged barrage of essays
aimed with Reed's famous vitriol and wit at the perpetrators of
America's war on blacks. African Americans have been at war with
some elements of the white population from the very beginning. In
this collection of essays, his first since Airing Dirty Laundry in
1993, Reed explores the many forms that this homefront war has
taken. His brilliant social criticism feints deftly among past and
present, government and media, personal and political. From the
author whose essay style has been compared to the punching power of
boxers Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali, this book is a series of fast,
powerful strikes against America's long tradition of racism.
'Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage
... The book explodes. Reed's special grace is anger ... a
muscular, luminous prose' The New York Times 'It always was, and
will always be the most fearlessly original, most viciously
political, most rambunctiously funny epic of slavery ever written.
America almost doesn't deserve it' - Marlon James (2015 Man Booker
Prize Winner) 'I loves it here ... We gets whipped with a velvet
whip, and there's free dentalcare' Three slaves are on the run in
the deep South, with their former master hot on their heels and the
Civil War raging. One of them arms himself for a final showdown;
one sells his body for pornographic movies; while the last, Raven
Quickskill - hero, poet, heartbreaker - swigs champagne on a
non-stop jumbo jet to Canada. Taking us on a wild ride through a
nineteenth century littered with limousines, waterbeds and colour
TVs, Flight to Canada is a surreal, madly funny satire on race in
America. 'A satirical "neo-slave narrative", the novel wittily
conjoins the past of slavery to the present of America's
bicentennial' New York Review of Books
"An exhilarating mix of unpredictable points of view . . . there's
real vitality in this anthology's crazy-quilt vision of
America."-Kirkus Reviews Is there such a thing as "American"
culture? No, says Ishmael Reed, the editor of this refreshing
anthology and a longtime critic of the mainstream media which, he
insists, marginalizes non-Anglo, non-Yankee cultures. In this
impressive collection of dissenting voices, Reed and other
African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian-Americans,
Italian-Americans, and Irish-Americans speak out against
monoculturalism and provide perspectives from points of view
frequently omitted from the discussion of race in the United
States. Addressing a broad variety of issues-including
assimilation; racial conflicts between minorities and within the
gay rights movement; victimization; and stereotyping-these essays
by notable writers, teachers, students, and professionals take us
far beyond the issues of black vs. white and often veer toward the
controversial. Stimulating, unpredictable, and provocative,
Multi-America introduces the authentic voices of Rainbow America in
all their diverse, angry, proud, celebratory glory. Contributors
include: * Miguel Algarin * Amiri Baraka * Ana Castillo * Frank
Chin * Earl Ofari Hutchinson * Jack Foley * Robert Elliot Fox *
Daniela Gioseffi * Nathan Hare * Juan Felipe Herrera * Helen
Barolini * Maulana Karenga * Martin Kilson * Elaine H. Kim *
Bharati Mukherjee * Leslie Marmon Silko * Barbara Smith * Werner
Sollors * Gerald Vizenor * William Wong
Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes
the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip
Hop--a truly all-inclusive multicultural anthology--a literary
event which will finally even the playing field. This important
collection synthesizes and presents broad swaths of work from poets
of all races and backgrounds, as only Reed can, ranging from
Gertrude Stein to Ai, from Bessie Smith to Askia Toure, from W. C.
Handy to the little-known poetry of Ernest Hemingway. Through his
unique position in American letters, as writer, teacher, and even
publisher, Reed has an unparalleled working knowledge of many of
the more marginalized voices in American poetry. This collection
will reflect that unique access by including acknowledged masters
as well as lesser known talents in greater variety than any
previous anthology. From Totems to Hip Hop will cover American
poetry from its pre-Columbian origins to the hip hop lyricists of
today and, with the guidance of Reed's thoughtful and provocative
introduction and headnotes, trace the remarkably rich
cross-pollination which has continually occurred across racial and
cultural lines.
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Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton
Calvin C. Hernton; Edited by David Grundy, Lauri Scheyer; Ishmael Reed
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The definitive guide to a major African American poet />
/>This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C.
Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a
major voice in American poetry. Hernton was a cofounder of the
Umbra Poets Workshop; a participant in the Black Arts Movement, R.
D. Laing's Kingsley Hall, and the Antiuniversity of London; and a
teacher at Oberlin College who counted amongst his friends bell
hooks, Toni Morrison, and Odetta. As a pioneer in the field of
Black Studies, Hernton developed a theoretical and practical
pedagogy with lasting impact on generations of students. He may be
best known as an anti-sexist sociologist, following in the
footsteps of W.E.B. Du Bois, but Hernton viewed himself, above all,
as a poet. This volume includes a generous selection of Hernton's
previously published poems, from classics like the often
anthologized "The Distant Drum" to the visionary epic The Coming of
Chronos to the House of Nightsong, reprinted in full for the first
time since 1964, alongside uncollected and unpublished material
from the Calvin C. Hernton papers at Ohio University, a new
critical introduction, and detailed notes, chronology, and
bibliography. /> />[sample poem] /> />The Distant Drum
/> />I am not a metaphor or symbol. />This you hear is not
the wind in the trees. />Nor a cat being maimed in the street.
/>I am being maimed in the street />It is I who weep, laugh,
feel pain or joy. />Speak this because I exist. />This is my
voice />These words are my words, my mouth />Speaks them, my
hand writes. />I am a poet. />It is my fist you hear beating
/>Against your ear.
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