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Juice!: A Novel by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpson wore in court the day he was acquitted, and it now stands as both an artifact in their "Trial of the Century" exhibit... -
Conjugating Hindi by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88California is still the world's biggest hideout. The only thing more western is the Pacific Ocean, where, if the Big One happens, California might find a home at the bottom. One of those hiding... -
Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage ... The book explodes. Reed's special grace is anger ... a muscular, luminous prose' The New York Times'It always was, and will... -
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'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 TimesA plague is spreading across... -
Bigotry on Broadway by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771862561Author Ishmael ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Baraka BooksPublisher Baraka... -
The Terrible Fours by Ishmael Reed 9781771862431
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £21.52When Ishmael Reed wrote The Terrible Twos about the American infantile need for instant gratification, he could not have realized that during the week of June 29, 2020, journalist Nicole Wallace... -
Flight to Canada by Ishmael Reed 9780684847504
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684847504Author Ishmael ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
The Complete Muhammad Ali by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.88Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed's The Complete Muhammad Ali is more than just a biography - it is a fascinating... -
Sam Gilliam Ishmael Reed 9781838663933
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £65.91The definitive monograph of Sam Gilliam one of the great innovators in post-war American painting An African American artist in the nation's capital at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Sam... -
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.77Ishmael Reed has devoted his life to uncovering the neglected cultural and historical record of the United States, no matter how ugly it might be. He uses a full-court press: fiction, poetry, plays,... -
Black Hollywood Unchained by Ishmael Reed 9780883783535
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883783535Author Ishmael ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Third World PressPublisher Third... -
Conversations with Ishmael Reed by Bruce Dick 9780878058150
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66As a fiercely independent thinker, Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo, Flight to Canada, Reckless Eyeballing, and other works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, is often in conflict with the... -
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £12.11"Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling... -
New and Collected Poems 1964-2007 by Ishmael Reed 9781568583419
Booksplease Price: £19.95First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profoundly optimistic, Reed weaves politics and war with Nigerian poetry and jazz all in the service of his... -
The Critical Response to Ishmael Reed by Bruce Allen Dick 9780313300257
Booksplease Price: £66.27Ishmael Reed has emerged as one of the most innovative and controversial novelists in contemporary African American literature. By focusing on his nine published novels, this volume charts the... -
A Study Guide for Ishmael Reed's Chatanooga by Cengage Learning Gale 9781379280965
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781379280965Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Gale, Study... -
Blind Persistence: The History of the Before Columbus Foundation by Ishmael Reed 9781771863988
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £19.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771863988Author Ishmael ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Baraka BooksPublisher Baraka... -
Going Too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown by Ishmael Reed
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £13.87Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence-including Mark Twain's Huckleberry... -
Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections by Ishmael Reed 9781568583396
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568583396Author Ishmael ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher... -
Postmodernism and its Others: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo by Jeffrey Ebbeson
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19The book analyzes Ishmael Reed [Mumbo Jumbo], Kathy Acker [The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec], and Don Delillo [White Noise], three authors whom critics cite as... -
In the Trickster Tradition: The Novels of Andrew Salkey, Francis Ebejar and Ishmael Reed by Peter Nazareth 9780904521979
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904521979Author Peter NazarethFormat PaperbackImprint Bogle-l'Ouverture Press LtdPublisher... -
A Study Guide for Ishmael Reed's Beware: Do Not Read This Poem by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375377072
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375377072Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Gale, Study... -
Postmodernism and its Others: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo by Jeffrey S. Ebbeson
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.98The book analyzes Ishmael Reed [Mumbo Jumbo], Kathy Acker [The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec], and Don Delillo [White Noise], three authors whom critics cite as... -
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 by Ishmael Reed 9781560254584
Booksplease Price: £20.50Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip Hop--a truly all-inclusive multicultural anthology--a literary... -
To Walt Whitman, America by Kenneth M. Price 9780807855188
Booksplease Price: £39.56Walt Whitman ""is America,"" according to Ezra Pound. More than a century after his death, Whitman's name regularly appears in political speeches, architectural inscriptions, television programs, and... -
Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodernist Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany by Robert E. Fox 9780313250330
Booksplease Price: £51.71Fox offers a clear and important, if brief, consideration of the fiction of Baraka, Reed, and Delany. He renders an especially important service by establishing the relationship among three... -
Black No More by George S. Schuyler
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'A liberating and lacerating critique of American racial madness, capitalism and white superiority ... Schuyler's wild, misanthropic, take-no-prisoners satire of American life seems more relevant... -
Black Theater, City Life: African American Art Institutions and Urban Cultural Ecologies by Macelle Mahala 9780810145146
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Macelle Mahala's rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community... -
Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock by Terrence T. Tucker 9780813068268
Booksplease Price: £25.25A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love--Terrence Tucker calls it "comic rage," and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique... -
Black No More by George S. Schuyler 9780143131885
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.27It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr Junius Crookman has discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach... -
Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism by Madhu Dubey
Booksplease Price: £28.55Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a... -
Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism by Madhu Dubey 9780226167268
Booksplease Price: £91.83Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a... -
Postmodern American Literature and Its Other by W.Lawrence Hogue
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65Although literary postmodernism has been defined in terms of difference, multiplicity, heterogeneity, and plurality, some of the most vaunted authors of postmodern American fiction--such as Thomas... -
Mumbo Jumbo by REED
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.90A preeminent African-American novelist, essayist, and activist takes an unorthodox look at black and white relations throughout history. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.Book InformationISBN... -
Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture: Towards Comparative Masculinity Studies Stefan Horlacher 9781138273122
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national... -
Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production by Crystal S. Anderson 9781496802538
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Beyond ""The Chinese Connection,"" Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so,... -
Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights by Derek C. Maus 9781496804563
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the... -
Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights by Derek C. Maus 9781617039973
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.80From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the... -
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones by Amiri Baraka
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.66The complete autobiography of a literary legend.Reviews"The story of Baraka's metamorphosis is itself part of the story of contemporary literature's development." -- Publishers Weekly"Always a nuance... -
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel by The Authors Guild 9780063280182
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063280182Author The Authors GuildFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher...