Ishmael Reed

[Jay Herzog]

	It seems to me what Reed does by updating slave narratives in
	"Flight to Canada" (the underground railroad is
	transformed into escape by jumbo jet) has parallels to M&D's
	doubling of narrative time; Pynchon uses Shandean stylistics
	to explore revolutinary era historical myth just as Reed does
	his number on the Civil War in "Flight" riffing on Harriet Beecher
	Stowe and Lincoln. Mumbo Jumbo is still his magnum opus, but
	Flight is a close second. 
 

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Vaska wrote:

> Andrew Dinn:
> >Was not impressed by Reed's later works but this one is equally as
> >brilliant as `Mumbo-Jumbo' (qv). 
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> You don't like his _Flight to Canada_?  Still think it's his best to date.  
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