Flight to Canada (eBook, ePUB) - Reed, Ishmael
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Ishmael Reed's parody of slavenarratives-theclassical literature of the African American tradition-which redefined the neo-slave genre and launched a lucrative academic industry Some parodies are as necessary as the books they answer. Such is the case with Flight to Canada, Ishmael Reed's scathing, offbeat response to conventional anti-slavery novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin. Though Flight to Canada has been classified by some as a "post race" novel, thevillainsand the heroes are clear. Three slaves are on the run from theSwilleplantation. Among them, the most hotly pursued is…mehr

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Ishmael Reed's parody of slavenarratives-theclassical literature of the African American tradition-which redefined the neo-slave genre and launched a lucrative academic industry Some parodies are as necessary as the books they answer. Such is the case with Flight to Canada, Ishmael Reed's scathing, offbeat response to conventional anti-slavery novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin. Though Flight to Canada has been classified by some as a "post race" novel, thevillainsand the heroes are clear. Three slaves are on the run from theSwilleplantation. Among them, the most hotly pursued is RavenQuickskill, a poet who seeks freedom in Canada, and ultimately hopes to return and liberate others. But this particular Civil War-era landscape is littered with modern elements, from Xerox copiers to airplanes, and freely reimagines historic figures as sacred as Abraham Lincoln. A comedy flashing with insight, Flight to Canadaposes serious questions about history and the complex ways that race relations in America are shaped by the past. Thisebookfeatures an illustrated biography of Ishmael Reed including rare images of the author.
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) is an acclaimed, multifaceted writer whose work often engages with overlooked aspects of the American experience. He has published ten novels, including Flight to Canadaand Mumbo Jumbo, as well as plays and collections of essays and poetry.He was nominated for a National Book Award in both poetry and prose in 1972. Conjure(1972), a volume of poetry,was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and his New and Collected Poems: 1964-2006(2007) received a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. Reed has also received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Blues Song Writer of the Year award from the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame, a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the National Institute for Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Fellowship.Reed taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for thirty-five years and currently lives in Oakland, California.