Ishmael Reed
Forfatter af Mumbo Jumbo
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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. vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Ishmael Reed
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Redaktør; Bidragyder — 172 eksemplarer
Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990 (1992) — Redaktør — 66 eksemplarer
Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now (2009) 28 eksemplarer
19 Necromancers From Now: An Anthology of Original American Writings for the 1970s (1970) — Editor, introduction; Forfatter — 11 eksemplarer
Future Christmas {excerpt from Terrible Twos} 2 eksemplarer
Yardbird reader, Volume 4 2 eksemplarer
Yardbird Reader: Volume 3 1 eksemplar
Yardbird Reader, Vol. 3 1 eksemplar
The Man Who Haunted Himself 1 eksemplar
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 eksemplar
Beware: Do Not Read This Poem 1 eksemplar
Y'Bird Magazine 1 eksemplar
Mumbo Jumbo {video recording} 1 eksemplar
Yardbird Reader 1 eksemplar
Mambo dżambo 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) — Bidragyder — 838 eksemplarer
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 745 eksemplarer
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (2000) — Bidragyder — 529 eksemplarer
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Bidragyder — 274 eksemplarer
The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy (Graywolf Annual) (1988) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Bidragyder — 114 eksemplarer
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Bidragyder — 100 eksemplarer
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Bidragyder — 89 eksemplarer
Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case (1997) — Bidragyder — 70 eksemplarer
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Bidragyder — 42 eksemplarer
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
West Coast Fiction: Modern Writing from California, Oregon, and Washington (1979) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
New World Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2/3 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
The Antioch Review: Volume 59, Number 2 (Spring 2001) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Reed, Ishmael Scott
- Fødselsdato
- 1938-02-22
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
- Bopæl
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA (birth)
Buffalo, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Uddannelse
- State University of New York, Buffalo
- Erhverv
- poet
novelist
essayist
professor
musician - Relationer
- Blank, Carla (wife)
- Organisationer
- Before Columbus Foundation
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Robert Kirsch Award (2003)
MacArthur Fellowship (1998)
Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award (2022)
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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."… (mere)