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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 169–192.
Published: 01 November 2002
... , Ted . The History of Jazz . New York: Oxford UP, 1977 . Gover , Robert . “An Interview with Ishmael Reed.” Black American Literature Forum 12 ( 1978 ): 12 –19. Hogue , W. Lawrence . “Historiographic Metafiction and the Celebration of Differences: Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo.” Ed...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2002
... the Border: The Mason-Dixon Line, Resistance, and Hegemony.” Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics . Ed. Scott Michaelsen and David E. Johnson Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997 . Côté , Jean-François . “The North American Novel in the United States: Ishmael Reed’s Canada.” American...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Phillip Brian Harper Abstract Observing that Ishmael Reed's 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo both oscillates between present‐ and past‐tense narration and traffics in historical anachronism, this article argues that these dual modes of temporal disjunction establish the novel as a work of historical allegory...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Philip Gould [email protected] Ashley Reed , Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America ( Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2020 ), pp. 276 , paper, $19.95 . Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc. 2022 In this valuable study...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 151–168.
Published: 01 November 2002
... . Fox , Robert Elliott . Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodernist Fiction of LeRoiJones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany . New York: Greenwood, 1987 . Gates , Henry Louis Jr . The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism . New York...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 490–494.
Published: 01 November 2015
... on Ishmael Reed's novel Flight to Canada , that revise the black characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin associated with subservience. Given that they reveal the “political ineffectiveness of white liberal guilt,” Tillet applauds these works for not condemning such characters to the dustbin of history (91). What...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to bring into focus. Careful examinations of Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, Ishmael Reed’s
Flight to Canada, Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale and Middle Passage, Sherley Anne Wil-
liams’s Dessa Rose, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River, John Edgar
Wideman’s The Cattle Killing...
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Novel (2022) 55 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2022
... Reed's critique of the outsize role afforded popular culture in contemporary Black political discourse is perhaps the most chastening. “Cultural production,” he writes in a pithy attack on the political pretensions of nineties rap music, “can reflect and perhaps support a political movement; it can never...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 510–514.
Published: 01 November 2010
... as taken up in works by Wright,
Wong, Ralph Ellison, and Okada. Douglas goes on to argue that the cultural nationalism
expressed by third-phase writers Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, and Frank Chin in the
1970s and 1980s rejected the sociologically generated concept of cultural assimilation...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 21–38.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of that. It would have appeased their skewed sense of harmony to pit their two coloreds against each other” (87; emphasis added). Rather than an ally for Lila Mae, Pompey is a tool of white supremacy. Later, in another scene of potential alliance, Lila Mae interacts with a colleague named Mr. Reed...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 11–17.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and Stanley Mitchell. 1962. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1983 . Reed , Adolph Jr. Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1999 . Smith , Valerie . Foreword. Sarah Phillips . Lee ix –xxxiv. Spillers , Hortense J. “The Crisis...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 159–163.
Published: 01 May 2011
... writers
to relinquish their attachment to race. What becomes of race in our even more modernist
(or postmodern) moment wherein race is simultaneously everywhere and therefore going
nowhere? Duvall’s conclusion addresses this question by running from it. Here he reads
Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 381–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of virtual reality technology in his astute account of Richard Powers's novel Plowing the Dark ; Kent Puckett sees the novel form at work in political documents; Phillip Brian Harper shows how the inclusion of photographs in Ishmael Reed's novel Mumbo Jumbo forces us to think about the form and political...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 338–368.
Published: 01 November 2001
... . Raper , Arthur F. Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1936 . Reed , T.V. Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements . Berkeley: U of California P, 1992 . Reed , T.V...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 31–55.
Published: 01 May 2012
... . Reed John R. “Soldier Boy: Forming Masculinity in Adam Bede.” Studies in the Novel 33 ( 2001 ): 268 – 84 . Review of Adam Bede. Saturday Review 26 Feb. 1859 : 250 – 51 . Rpt. in George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Ed. David Carroll . New York : Barnes and Noble , 1971. 73–76...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 402–423.
Published: 01 November 2011
...—and Some Other Things.” Cornhill Magazine 7 : 41 ( May 1863 ): 622 – 28 . [ Ollier Edmund .] “A Scientific Figment.” Household Words 10 . 248 ( 23 Dec. 1854 ): 453 – 56 . Reed Edward R. From Soul to Mind: The Emergence of Psychology, from Erasmus Darwin to William...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 316–318.
Published: 01 November 2002
... that
heterogeneity of interests and identities in her reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved in
which summary references to Margaret Walker's Jubilee, Gay1 Jones's Corregidora, Ishmael
Reed's Flight to Canada, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and
Charles Johnson's The Oxherding Tale...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 317–319.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., Ken Kesey, Thomas Pynchon,
Joyce Carol Oates, Ishmael Reed, Sandra Cisneros, N. Scott Momaday, on and on, the legion.
McGurl gets to them all, does brief takes that are often like droll monologues, deadpan, epi-
grammatic. He has a cool take on Kesey’s literary bravado and Merry Prankster...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 107–129.
Published: 01 May 2019
... are processes that belong to a concluded chapter of England's history, along with the attendant inference that peasants, in the strictest definition of the term, have thus ceased to exist, has been challenged on numerous accounts. Mick Reed has shown that throughout the nineteenth century there were in fact...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., the sinister foreign.
Except for Houdini, who nonetheless had something swarthy about him” (57–58).
The only term left out here is “mumbo-jumbo,” also the title of Ishmael Reed’s
1972 novel, which is also an African American novel about a text that, like Fulton’s
plans for the Black Box, is divided...
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