Conversations with Ishmael Reed

edited by Bruce Dick and Amritjit Singh

ISBN 10: 087805815X / ISBN 13: 9780878058150

Published by Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1995., 1995

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ISBN 087805815X. Trade paperback in very good to near fine condition. Tight clean unmarked copy with flat spine. First printing. C-14-4 3.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conversations with Ishmael Reed
• Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1995.
• Publication Date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 087805815X
• ISBN 13: 9780878058150
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket
• Signed: No Signature
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.”

About the Authors

Bruce Dick is associate professor of English at Appalachian State University and coeditor of Conversations with Ishmael Reed and Conversations with Rudolfo Anaya, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Amritjit Singh is professor of English at Rhode Island College and coeditor of Postcolonial Theory and the United States, Interviews with Edward W. Said, Conversations with Ralph Ellison, and Conversations with Ishmael Reed, all published by University Press of Mississippi.