Flight to Canada

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781453287989

<DIV><b>Ishmael Reed&rsquo;s parody of slave&#160;narratives&mdash;the&#160;classical literature of the African American tradition&mdash;which redefined the neo-slave genre and launched a lucrative academic industry</b></div><DIV><BR>Some parodies are as necessary as the books they answer. Such is the case with&#160;<i>Flight to Canada</i>, Ishmael Reed&rsquo;s scathing, offbeat response to conventional anti-slavery novels such as&#160;<i>Uncle Tom&rsquo;s Cabin</i>. Though&#160;<i>Flight to Canada</i> has been classified by some as a &ldquo;post race&rdquo; novel, the&#160;villains&#160;and the heroes are clear.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>Three slaves are on the run from the&#160;Swille&#160;plantation. Among them, the most hotly pursued is Raven&#160;Quickskill, a poet who seeks freedom in Canada, and ultimately hopes to return and liberate others. But this particular Civil War&ndash;era landscape is littered with modern elements, from Xerox copiers to airplanes, and freely reimagines historic figures as sacred as Abraham Lincoln. A comedy flashing with insight, <i>Flight to Canada&#160;</i>poses serious questions about history and the complex ways that race relations in America are shaped by the past.&#160;&#160;&#160;</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>This&#160;ebook&#160;features an illustrated biography of Ishmael Reed including rare images of the author.</div>