On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed: Contemporary Reassessments (12/09)
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On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed:
Contemporary Reassessments
Under this working title, Paul Tayyar (Golden West, California) and Sämi Ludwig (UHA Mulhouse, France) want to collect the views of young scholars and artists who represent yet another generation cherishing Ishmael Reed's work. After a furious start in the 1960s, Reed found a place in the contemporary African-American canon in the 1970s when some major criticism appeared on his writing. In the 1980s interest in him slackened--although we know that many young scholars in particular love his stories, his poems, and his essays.