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Flight to Canada (novel)

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Flight to Canada
AuthorIshmael Reed
LanguageEnglish
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
1976
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
ISBN0-684-84750-7
Preceded byThe Last Days of Louisiana Red 
Followed byThe 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]

References

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  1. ^ Charyn, Jerome (September 19, 1976). "Flight to Canada". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Lucas, Julian (September 29, 2016). "New Black Worlds to Know". New York Review of Books.