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Juice!: A Novel (American Literature Series)
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Description for Juice!: A Novel (American Literature Series)
Paperback. Series: American Literature Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 203 x 26. Weight in Grams: 430.
In 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 and a symbol of the American media's endless hunger for the criminal and the celebrity. This event serves as a launching point for Ishmael Reed's "Juice!," a novelistic commentary on the post-Simpson American media frenzy from one of the most controversial figures in American literature today. Through Paul Blessings--a censored cartoonist suffering from diabetes--and his cohorts--serving as stand-ins for the various mediums of ... Read more
In 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 and a symbol of the American media's endless hunger for the criminal and the celebrity. This event serves as a launching point for Ishmael Reed's "Juice!," a novelistic commentary on the post-Simpson American media frenzy from one of the most controversial figures in American literature today. Through Paul Blessings--a censored cartoonist suffering from diabetes--and his cohorts--serving as stand-ins for the various mediums of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
American Literature Series
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564786371
SKU
V9781564786371
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About Unknown
Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or Neo-Hoodooism as he calls it. Founder of the ... Read more
Reviews for Juice!: A Novel (American Literature Series)
“Seemingly tired of arguments about 'identity politics', and being forced "to rally around the flag of black brotherhood', Reed's mischievous energetic prose transforms Juice! into an engaging, troubling and innovative novel.” —The Times Literary Supplement "...a genuinely inventive novel, which depends not on people in catharsis but on the pleasures of the riffing itself, which allows Reed ... Read more