{"title":"Ishmael Reed","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mumbo-jumbo-ishmael-reed","title":"Mumbo Jumbo -- Ishmael Reed, Paperback","description":"The classic freewheeling look at race relations through the ages.Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of our preeminent African American authors, mixes portraits of historical figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ishmael Reed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.08w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780684824772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/1996 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIshmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books including \u003ci\u003eMumbo Jumbo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYellow Back Radio Broke-Down\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Conjugating Hindi, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently \u003ci\u003eWhy the Black Hole Sings the Blues \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eCounterPunch \u003c\/i\u003eand founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. Reed is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ishmael Reed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43597931413732,"sku":"9780684824772","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780684824772.jpg?v=1719518355"},{"product_id":"japanese-by-spring-ishmael-reed-paperback","title":"Japanese by Spring -- Ishmael Reed, Paperback","description":"Benjamin \"Chappie\" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts after tenure and its glorious perks (including a house in the Oakland Hills). He spends most of his time trying to divine the ideological climate of the school and obligingly adapting his beliefs to it. When Puttbutt's mysterious Japanese tutor, who promises to teach him Japanese by spring, suddenly becomes the school's new president and appoints Puttbutt as academic dean, the fun really begins--for Puttbutt sets out to stir things up and settle old scores.\u003cp\u003eTurning every contemporary political and social movement on its head--from feminism to nationalism to jingoism--this boistrois and irreverent novel manages to be by turns hilarious and totally serious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the funniest satires of university politics I've ever read. Ishmael Reed is funnier than Norman Mailer or Gore Vidal.\" --Leslie Marmon Silko\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reed is, as always, an American original; a wiseguy whose wisdom is the real thing,\" --\u003cb\u003eThe Boston Sunday Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ishmael Reed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.16w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140255850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/1996 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/08\/1996 pg. 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/24\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIshmael Reed\u003c\/b\u003e is one of America's most renowned African-American writers. He is the author of plays, poetry and novels, including \u003ci\u003eJapanese by Spring\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Oakland, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ishmael Reed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652880490724,"sku":"9780140255850","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780140255850.jpg?v=1726881997"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/collections\/ishmael-reed.oembed","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}