Flight to Canada (novel) explained

Flight to Canada
Author:Ishmael Reed
Country:United States
Language:English
Publisher:Random House
Pub Date:1976
Media Type:Print
Isbn:0-684-84750-7
Preceded By:The Last Days of Louisiana Red
Followed By:The Terrible Twos

Flight to Canada is a 1976 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed. Set in the last years of the American Civil War and its aftermath, the story makes ready use of anachronism, referencing both actual and fabricated pop-cultural phenomena from the twentieth century, such as the made-up "Beecher Hour" TV show, as well as technology such alike cassette tapes, jumbo jets, and Coffee-Mate. Published in the year of the United States Bicentennial, the book was called "a demonized Uncle Tom's Cabin" by The New York Times.[1] Reed himself has described the novel, as a "neo–slave narrative", and its influence has been identified in the work of Colson Whitehead.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: Charyn . Jerome . Flight to Canada . The New York Times . 19 September 1976.
  2. Lucas . Julian . New Black Worlds to Know . . 29 September 2016.