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Ishmael Reed: A Literary Voice of Resistance and Innovation

Ishmael Reed, born on February 22, 1938, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a prominent American writer and cultural activist known for his innovative literary style and intersection with the Black Arts Movement. Growing up in Buffalo, New York, he discovered his passion for writing early on, starting his own jazz column at just 14. A professor at the University of California, Reed has authored notable works, including "Mumbo Jumbo" and "The Last Days of Louisiana Red," and has received prestigious awards for his contributions to literature. He views his writing as a form of resistance against racism and criticism.

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Ishmael Reed: A Literary Voice of Resistance and Innovation

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  1. ishmael reed By: jamil brown

  2. background info • Birth: February 22, 1938 (place) Chattanooga ,Tennessee • Parents: Thelma Coleman and Henry Lenoir

  3. Childhood • He grew up in buffalo new York • He also he attended the University of Buffalo • First start writing his own jazz column when he was 14

  4. Adult life and politics • taught 35 at university of California. • He currently lives in Oakland, California with his wife of more than 40 years. • He was also a member of the Umbra Writers Workshop, an organization among whose members were some that helped establish the Black Arts Movement .

  5. Awards • Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1975, for The Last Days of Louisiana Red • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award for fiction, 1974; Guggenheim fellowship • Langston Hughes Medal for Lifetime Achievement, 1994 • National Institute of Arts and Letters honor, 1975

  6. Work and publications • The Free-lance Pallbearers, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1967. • Yellow Back Radio Broke-down, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1969. • Mumbo Jumbo, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1972. • The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Random House (New York, NY), 1974

  7. Summary of freelance pallbearers • It’s a miserable and dangerous place ruled for thirty years by Harry Sam who had a to a town full of different people,then the crusading Bukka Doopeyduk leaded rebellion against him.

  8. How he view his writings • He view his writing as a fight against racist and bad criticism the more he writing the more he win. • Also he

  9. Good criticism and Bad criticism • They sad his writing was like Fredrick Douglas and Reginald Martin. • The bad thing is they say his writing is too complicated to reed.

  10. Influence • He was Influence by poets in the Harlem Renaissance like Beat poets • He was also influence by Ted Jones was an, jazz poet and painter

  11. The end

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