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Born in 1938 / United States / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • African American Writers,Scribner (New York, NY), 1991.
  • Boyer, Jay,Ishmael Reed,Boise State University Press (Boise, ID), 1993.
  • Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook,Greewood Press (Westport, CT), 1999.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism,Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 2, 1974, Volume 3, 1975, Volume 5, 1976, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 8, 1980, Volume 32, 1985.
  • Contemporary Novelists,7th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2001.
  • Contemporary Poets,7th edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2001.
  • Contemporary Southern Writers,St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 2: American Novelists since World War II, 1978, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, 1980, Volume 33: Afro-American Fiction Writers after 1955, 1984, Volume 227: American Novelists since World War II, Sixth Series,2000.
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography,Volume 23, Gale (Detroit, MI), 2003.
  • Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century,St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.
  • Joyce, Joyce Ann, Warriors, Conjurers, and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism,Third World Press (Chicago, IL), 1994.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome, Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism,Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1985.
  • Ludwig, Sami,Concrete Language: Intercultural Communication in Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior" and Ishmael Reed's "Mumbo Jumbo,"[New York], 1996.
  • Martin, Reginald, Ishmael Reed and the New Black Aesthetic Critics,Macmillan (London, England), 1987.
  • Modern American Literature,St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.
  • O'Donnell, Patrick, and Robert Con Davis, editors, Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction,Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1989.
  • Ostendorf, Berndt, Black Literature in White America,Noble (Totowa, NJ), 1982.
  • St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture,St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 2000.
  • Settle, Elizabeth A., and Thomas A. Settle, Ishmael Reed: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography, G. K. Hall (Boston, MA), 1982.
PERIODICALS
  • Amerasia Journal, February, 1999, review of Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace,p. 181.
  • American Book Review,May-June, 1983; October-November, 1994, p. 17.
  • American Poetry Review,May-June, 1976; January-February, 1978.
  • Arizona Quarterly,autumn, 1979.
  • Black American Literature Forum,Volume 12, 1978; spring, 1979; spring, 1980; fall, 1984.
  • Black Enterprise,January, 1973; December, 1982; April, 1983; October, 1994, p. 169.
  • Black Issues Book Review, March, 2002, review of Mumbo Jumbo, review of The Free-Lance Pallbearers, review of Flight to Canada, p. 26; January-February, 2003, Clifford Thompson, "Call Him Ishmael: The Controversial (Some Say Reckless) Cultural Critic Ishmael Reed Returns a New Collection of Essays Appropriately Titled Another Day at the Front," p. 40, review of Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War,p. 52.
  • Black World,October, 1971; December, 1972; January, 1974; June, 1974; June, 1975; July, 1975.
  • Booklist, June 1, 2000, Vanessa Bush, review of The Reed Reader, p. 1838; December 15, 2002, Vernon Ford, review of Another Day at the Front, p. 713; February 15, 2003, review of From Totems to Hip-Hop, p. 1038; September 15, 2003, review of Blues City: A Walk in Oakland,p. 198.
  • Chicago Review,fall, 1976.
  • Chicago Tribune Book World,April 27, 1986.
  • Critical Inquiry,June, 1983.
  • Dalhousie Review, spring, 2000, review of The Reed Reader,p. 137.
  • Essence,July, 1986; July, 1994, p. 38.
  • Harper's,December, 1969.
  • Iowa Review,spring, 1982, pp. 117-131.
  • Kirkus Reviews, November 1, 2002, review of Another Day at the Front, p. 1598; June 15, 2003, review of Blues City: A Walk in Oakland,p. 850.
  • Library Journal, April 1, 2003, Daniel L. Guillory, review of From Totems to Hip-Hop,p. 104.
  • Los Angeles Times,April 29, 1975.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review,April 20, 1986; June 4, 1989; April 14, 1991, p. 10.
  • MELUS,spring, 1984.
  • Mississippi Quarterly,winter, 1984-85, pp. 21-32.
  • Mississippi Review,Volume 20, numbers 1-2, 1991.
  • Modern Fiction Studies,summer, 1976; spring, 1988, pp. 97-123.
  • Modern Poetry Studies,autumn, 1973; autumn, 1974.
  • Nation,September 18, 1976; May 22, 1982
  • Negro American Literature Forum,winter, 1967; winter, 1972.
  • Negro Digest,February, 1969; December, 1969.
  • New Republic,November 23, 1974.
  • New Yorker,October 11, 1969.
  • New York Review of Books,October 5, 1972; December 12, 1974; August 12, 1982; January 29, 1987; October 12, 1989, p. 20.
  • New York Times,August 1, 1969; August 9, 1972; June 17, 1982; April 5, 1986; September 28, 1995, p. A1; February 7, 1996, p. C12; May 13, 1997, p. C14.
  • New York Times Book Review,August 6, 1972; November 10, 1974; September 19, 1976; July 18, 1982; March 23, 1986; May 7, 1989; April 7, 1991, p. 32; February 13, 1994, p. 28.
  • Obsidian,spring-summer, 1979; spring-summer, 1986, pp. 113-127.
  • Partisan Review,spring, 1975.
  • People,December 16, 1974.
  • Phylon,December, 1968; June, 1975.
  • Publishers Weekly, June 23, 2003, review of Blues City,p. 53.
  • Review of Contemporary Fiction,summer, 1984; spring, 1987; summer, 1994, p. 227.
  • San Francisco Review of Books,November, 1975; January-February, 1983.
  • Saturday Review,October 14, 1972; November 11, 1978.
  • Times Literary Supplement,May 18, 1990, p. 534; July 15, 1994, p. 22.
  • Tribune Books(Chicago, IL), April 11, 1993, p. 3; December 12, 1993, p. 4.
  • Twentieth Century Literature,April, 1974.
  • Village Voice,January 22, 1979.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review,winter, 1973.
  • Washington Post Book World,March 16, 1986; June 25, 1989, pp. 4, 6; November 12, 1989, p. 16; April 14, 1991, p. 12; January 26, 1992, p. 12; March 21, 1993, p. 6.
  • Western American Literature, winter, 2002, review of Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down,p. 325.
  • World Literature Today, autumn, 1978.
ONLINE
  • Center for Book Culture, http://www.centerforbookculture.org/ (February 11, 2003), review of The Free-Lance Pallbearers.
  • Publishers Group West, http://www.pgw.com/ (February 11, 2003), description of From Totems to Hip-Hop.
  • State University of New York at Buffalo, http://www.math.buffalo.edu/ (November 25, 2003), Mathematics Department, Professor Scott W. Williams, "Ishmael Reed."*