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	Dalkey Archive Press: Ishmael Reed
		Ishmael Reed's electrifying first novel zooms readers off to the crazy, ominous kingdom of HARRY SAM--a miserable and dangerous place ruled for thirty years by Harry Sam, a former used car salesman who wields his power from his bathroom throne.
		Ishmael Reed has a shrewd eye, a mean ear, a nasty tongue.
		Ishmael Reed's sixth novel depicts a zany, bizarre, and all-too believable future where mankind's fate depends upon St. Nicholas and a Risto rasta dwarf named Black Peter, who together wreak mischievous havoc on Wall Street and in the Oval Office.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/reed.html (2300 words)

	About Ishmael Reed's Life and Work
		True, Reed is a vigorous promoter of African-originated modes of being and performance, which he uses to challenge established canons of judgment and achievement, but a careful assessment of his work over three decades reveals that his pro-fl position never was a dogmatic one.
		For Reed to be seen as satirizing the fl literary tradition in a period of Black Power and the long overdue recuperation and reassessment of that very tradition was not likely to endear him to either white liberals or fl cultural nationalists.
		Reed does, in fact, have his share of enemies and detractors, who, in a real sense, are as much of a defining presence for his career as the endorsements of his many admirers.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/reed/about.htm (1590 words)

	On Ishmael Reed's "I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra"
		Ishmael Reed's poem "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra" turns on a series of elaborate puns and allusions that all reinforce the central idea that the old (fl) god Ra is about to reclaim his throne and his power over men.
		The "ritual beard" of Sonny Rollins' "axe" holds Reed's ambivalent transitions between sacrifice and performance in the poem; in the terms of the Blakean scheme, poetry and art, and not the priests, are the sources of culture.
		Reed's hero is also "Lord-of the Lash" but Reed, with his characteristic penchant for the humour of the incongruous, reincarnates a now-forgotten hero from B-movie westerns in the grim shadow of the Petro cult.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/reed/cowboy.htm (3346 words)

	Flight to Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ishmael Reed's purpose as a postmodern historical novelist is centered on the belief that the body of African-American history and literature has been both excluded and appropriated by the white cultural establishment.
		Reed's revisions of history, on the one hand, supplement the historical record—that is, they explore the "dark areas" in order to restore what has been lost and to reclaim the American experience for fls—and, on the other hand, displace the historical record—in short, they violate the "dark areas" and propose an alternative history.
		Reed believes that the attitudes and assumptions of the white literary establishment are "steeped in the Euro-Christian tradition of authoritarian, dogmatic pontification" (Mackey 355), a tradition that accepts unending conflict between fls and whites as a cultural model.
	www.rlc.dcccd.edu /annex/COMM/english/mah8420/FlightToCanada.htm (4725 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ishmael Reed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Reed is one of the best-known American writers of his generation, and along with Amiri Baraka is one of the most controversial (and politically left-wing).
		Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, grew up in Buffalo, New York (where he attended the University of Buffalo), lived in New York City in the 1960s, and currently lives in Oakland, California.
		University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, University of California, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California, USA to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ishmael-Reed (656 words)

	Ishmael Reed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ishmael Reed is a conscious part of the Afro-American literary tradition that extends back to the first-person slave narratives, and the central purpose of his novels is to define a means of expressing the complexity of the Afro-American experience in a manner distinct from the dominant literary tradition.
		Reed's protagonist is PaPa LaBas, an aging hoodoo detective and cultural diagnostician, and LaBas' name, "over there" in French, reveals that his purpose is to reconnect Afro-Americans with their cultural heritage by reunifying the Text of Jes Grew, literally the Egyptian Book of Thoth.
		Reed takes the phrase Jes Grew from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy and James Weldon Johnson's description of Afro-American music's unascribed development, but in the novel Jes Grew is a contagion, connected with the improvisational spirit of ragtime and jazz, that begins to spread across America in the Twenties.
	lfa.atu.edu /Brucker/Reed.html (3392 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Essays: "Ishmael Reed, William Blake, and the '60s According to Shamoon Zamir"
		Reed's turn to the gunslinger as hero as an acceptance of the unavailability of the prophetic model of resolution in the late 1960s.
		Reed's persona takes the moment of conflict as the bridge to the triumph of satire in the vacuum left by the failed Blakean brotherhood of artists." [1224] Blakean or Romantic prophecy has no ground in the world of the '60s, hence Reed's retreat to occultism and inability to move beyond satire.
		Ishmael Reed does a delicious dish of Western civ, but borrows all his ideas from fascists and ultimately has nothing to offer but a spurious rehashing of the most irresponsible and useless occult themes.
	www.autodidactproject.org /my/blakereed.html (2266 words)

	Ishmael Reed & Yellow Back Radio...
		Reed claims that his novels compose "an art form with its own laws," but he does not mean to imply that his work is private, for these "laws" are founded on a careful but imaginative reinterpretation of the historical and mythological past.
		Reed's protagonist, the Loop Garoo Kid, is a proponent of artistic freedom and an accomplished voodoo houngan who contrasts markedly with the continually victimized Doopeyduk.
		Reed explains the novel's title by suggesting that his book is the "dismantling of a genre done in an oral way like radio." "Yellow back" refers to the popular dime novels; "radio" refers to the novel's oral, discontinuous form; and a "broke-down" is a dismantling.
	daphne.palomar.edu /rlatas/ho/100/reedwrittin.htm (552 words)

	Ishmael Reed - Poet, Author
		One of the founding fathers of multi-cultural studies, award-winning writer 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.
		Ishmael Reed was born February 22, 1933, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
		Reed presently lives in Oakland, California, and in addition to the demands of his writing and teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, he presently runs a publishing enterprise with Al Young and Steve Cannon, which principally publishes Reed and Young's "Quilt" volumes: volumes devoted to minority, West Coast, and student writers.
	www.aalbc.com /authors/ishmael.htm (6747 words)

	Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ishmael Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1938, but shortly thereafter his family moved into a working class neighborhood of Buffalo, New York.
		Ishmael attended public grade schools in Buffalo and went on to enroll at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
		Reed has taught English and writing at prestigious universities throughout the country—Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and for the past twenty years, the University of California at Berkeley.
	oneweb.utc.edu /~tnwriter/authors/reed.i.html (261 words)

	Ishmael Reed
		Ishmael Reed was born February 22, 1933, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
		Reed presently lives in Oakland, California, and in addition to the demands of his writing and teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, he presently runs a publishing enterprise with Al Young and Steve Cannon, which principally publishes Reed and Young's "Quilt" volumes: volumes devoted to minority, West Coast, and student writers.
		Ishmael Reed's sixth novel depicts a zany, bizarre, and all-too-believable future where mankind's fate depends upon a jolly old gent named St. Nicholas and a Risto-rasta dwarf named Black Peter, who together wreak mischievous havoc on Wall Street and in the Oval Office.
	aalbc.com /authors/ishmael.htm (6622 words)

	Ishmael Reed in Israel: Open Letter to CNN
		Ishmael Reed, being a very intelligent man, and one who is not afraid of making public his opinions - is not, to say the least, a supporter on Israel.
		Reed) at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, which organized his visit in Israel, Reed sounded quite formal.
		Reeds statements, since they concern the CNN network you are responsible for, deserve some kind of reaction on your part, and as such, I am publishing this letter on our web site, and promise to publish your reply when it arrives.
	www.gamla.org.il /english/article/2000/dec/reed.htm (768 words)

	Alibris: Ishmael Reed
		Reed's 1969 masterpiece is a savage massacre of the Wild West that could havebeen.
		In the eighth novel of his distinguished career, Ishmael Reed proves that he is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary literature.
		Ishmael Reed has been described as cavorting "like a fl bull in the china shop of Western culture", and The Reed Reader is a collection of the sharp, jagged results of his rampage.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ishmael_Reed (1077 words)

	You take Manhattan -- Ishmael Reed writes a sweet, bluesy ode to his town, gritty, misunderstood, lovable Oakland
		Of course, Reed has lived in Oakland for more than two decades, which gives him a special knowledge of the city, but there was something else that appealed to him about focusing on his own oft-maligned backyard.
		Reed's spirits are lifted when dropping in on the beautifully restored African American Museum and Library (originally the Carnegie Library, from 1902), the Pardee Home Museum (built in 1868-69) and walking around Old Oakland, the neighborhood of restored, elegant Italianate buildings from the 1870s.
		Reed says one of the best things about Oakland, in addition to its natural beauty, is its "callaloo of cultures." "People live side by side instead of separated," he says.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/20/DD114222.DTL (1361 words)

	Black Arts writer Ishmael Reed to read from works at Hughes symposium
		LAWRENCE -- Writer Ishmael Reed, one of the principal voices of the Black Arts movement of the 1950s and 1960s, will rmake two public appearances at the University of Kansas next week as part of the Langston Hughes symposium.
		Reed is in Lawrence in conjunction with "Let America Be America Again," an international symposium on the art, life and legacy of Langston Hughes, Feb. 7-10.
		Reed has taught at Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth and presently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
	www.news.ku.edu /2002/02N/FebNews/Feb4/reed.html (421 words)

	University of Delaware: THE ISHMAEL REED PAPERS
		Ishmael Reed's creative work in various media and his roles as teacher, performer, and public figure are revealed in the audiotapes and recordings, videotapes, and related materials found in Series XI.
		Reed discusses Airing Dirty Laundry, his "pugnacious" style of essay writing, and his letters to editors, which he says are usually written but not sent.
		Jun 18, 1991," 1991 67 "Ishmael Reed 3/23/91" and "Reed con't.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/reed/media.htm (2951 words)

	Books of the poet: Ishmael Reed - book works writings work
		Reed is certainly one to take chances in his writing and the reader will benefit from the "wisdom" of his words.
		Ishmael Reed's "Blues City" is a lot like Oakland itself: full of promise, but fraught with serious problems.
		Reed tells it like it is in Oakland and he's surely developed a deep fondness for his adopted hometown.
	www.poemhunter.com /ishmael-reed/books/poet-16840 (2627 words)

	Ishmael Reed Biography/Biblio
		Reed's literary style is best known for its use of parody and satire in attempts to create new myths and to challenge the formal conventions of literary tradition.
		Reed's works have alternately been criticized as incoherent, muddled, and abstruse, and hailed as multicultural, revolutionary, vivid, and containing a deep awareness of mythic archetypes.
		Although Reed describes the work as Ra, look at the triteness of everyday life in middle-class America, it is more than a glance at triteness.
	www.math.buffalo.edu /~sww/reed/reed_ishmael_bio.html (787 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Blues City: a Walk in Oakland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Reed's words, I was reminded why my husband and I keep choosing Oakland as our home, despite our overburndened and poorly run Oakland Unified School District and long work commutes to San Francisco and beyond.
		Reed's portrayal of Hilliard's disappointment, disgust and sadness with how the Panthers were destroyed as well as the kind of political movements that currently operate on the Left is well-balanced and poignant--never condescending or reverent.
		Ishmael Reed, Oakland, CA's longtime resident, poet, novelist, essayist, and faculty member of UC Berkeley, pens a love song to the much maligned city across the bay from San Francisco, its more glittery neighbor.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1400045401 (1081 words)

	Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 1564782387
		Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 1564782387
		YELLOW BACK RADIO BROKE DOWN (By Larson Reed)
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	Ishmael Reed Konch Magazine
		(Mailer's NYRB essay, for example, was cited last weekend at the Harlem Book Fair by the reliably silly author-activist Ishmael Reed.) On the other hand, these are perennially marginalized groups, the political equivalent of Hare Krishnas banging their tambourines at curb of life.
		That said, I will add that I have no ill will towards you personally; in fact, the reason I was able to quote from your book is that I was invited to revew it several months ago but felt the review would be too harsh, so in the end I shelved the project.
		Forty years ago, Professor Reed, you were engaged in an altogether righteous struggle for civil rights.
	www.ishmaelreedpub.com /articles/interchange.html (484 words)

	Ishmael Reed \| American Poet \| The Freelance Pallbearers \| Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		...by Matthew R. Davis Ishmael Reed maintains a complicated relationship...Might to Canada is constructed, Ishmael Reed utilizes the dominant tropes and...a distinctly...
		Monkey Kings and Mojo: Postmodern Ethnic Humor in Kingston, Reed, and Vizenor, in MELUS
		...HAL" BENNETT 324 ISHMAEL REED 329 Change...John Wideman, Hal Bennett, and Ishmael Reed.
	questia.com /library/literature/.../ishmael-reed.jsp (646 words)

	Poet: Ishmael Reed - All poems of Ishmael Reed
		Poet: Ishmael Reed - All poems of Ishmael Reed
		Pre-eminent African American literary figure, Ishmael Reed, lends his name to two e-zines features many different authors of science fiction, poems,...
		Ishmael Reed, together with Toni Morrison, is one of today's pre-eminent African...
	www.poemhunter.com /ishmael-reed/poet-16840 (270 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: MUMBO JUMBO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The juxtaposition of historical and fictional characters and situations is a tongue-in-cheek way of understanding how the dead white men of yore responded to the presence of an African cultural presence in the US despite myriad safeguards against it.
		In Reed's nothing-short-of-brilliant book, the Wallflower Order (guess which of the two previously described groups they are) get all bent out of shape because there's this "mumbo jumbo" "voodoo" dancing breaking out even in society's most prudish circles.
		Reed's work always lampoons historical figures, fictional and literary characters, and especially religion.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684824779?v=glance (1789 words)

	Bad Mouth: Ishmael Reed Interview \|\|\| KENCHEN.ORG
		When I first met Ishmael Reed, as a student in his poetry workshop, the first words he said to me were: "Get out of my chair." A reader familiar with his work would not be surprised.
		And opinions are something Ishmael Reed has a lot of.
		A NOTE OF EXPLANATION: In addition to being a professor of English at UC Berkeley, Ishmael Reed is most well known for being the author of such novels as Mumbo Jumbo and Flight to Canada, but he is also the author of numerous poetry books, plays, and essays.
	www.kenchen.org /writing/ireed.htm (1778 words)

	Ishmael Reed -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ishmael Reed -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Reed is one of the best-known (Click link for more info and facts about African American) African American writers of his generation, and along with (Click link for more info and facts about Amiri Baraka) Amiri Baraka is one of the most controversial (and politically (Click link for more info and facts about left-wing) left-wing).
		His work consistently satirizes the American (Click link for more info and facts about right-wing) right-wing, highlighting domestic political and cultural oppression.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/ishmael_reed.htm (161 words)

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