Ishmael Reed Bücher

"Die Weihnachtsmann-Connection" ist ein scharfzüngiger, humorvoller fiktionaler Angriff auf all jene mürrischen, verwöhnten Nörgler, die sofortige Befriedigung verlangen – Amerikaner. Ishmael Reeds sechster Roman schildert eine verrückte, bizarre und allzu glaubwürdige Zukunft, in der das Schicksal der Menschheit von St. Nikolaus und einem rasta Zwerg namens Black Peter abhängt, die gemeinsam Unfug an der Wall Street und im Oval Office treiben. Diese skurrile, treffende Gesellschaftskritik macht großartige Witze über alles Amerikanische, von Kommerz über den Kongress bis hin zu Santa Claus und religiösen Kulten.

Ishmael Reed's classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.

Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye view of the Civil War. Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes Negroes run away) escape from Virginia. Not satisfied with leaving slavery halfway, one of the trio has vowed to go the whole distance to Canada; his master, Arthur Swille, determined to recover his property, pursues, hot on Raven Quickskill's trail.With his myth-bending ingenuity, Reed merges history, fantasy, political reality, and high comedy as he parodies the fugitive slave narrative: the slave-poet Quickskill flees to Canada on a nonstop jumbo jet; Abe Lincoln waltzes through slave quarters to the tune of "Hello Dolly"; the plantation mistress lies in bed watching the Beecher Hour on TV. Flight to Canada's preposterous episodes leap out from the pages of history to reveal a keen sense of America past and present.

'A great writer' James Baldwin 'Part vision, part satire, part farce ... a wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of fiction and witchcraft' The New York Times A plague is spreading across 1920s America, racing from New Orleans to New York. It's an epidemic of free expression, carried by black artists, and its symptoms are an uncontrollable urge to dance, sing, laugh and jive. The state will stop at nothing to suppress the outbreak, but, deep in the heart of Harlem, private eye and Vodum priest Papa LaBas has other ideas - and, possibly, the key to everything. A freewheeling, explosive blend of jazz, ragtime, ancient myth, magic and conspiracy thriller, this anarchic postmodern classic is a satire for our times.