 | C. W. E. Bigsby - 1985 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...definitions. As a character in Ishmael Reed's Yellow Back Radio Broke Down observes of the novel, ' What if I write circuses? No one says a novel has...o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.'18 The absence of psychological or sociological concern, the failure to develop character,... | |
 | Ray Willbanks - 1984 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...Broke-Down, Loop defines a novel, and that definition seems to describe the work and intention of Reed: "No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be...to be, a vaudeville show, the six o-clock news, the mumbling of wise men saddled by demons. All art must be for the end of liberating the masses."18 What... | |
 | Tony Tanner - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...Reed's Yellow Back Radio Broke Down: 'Whats your beef with me Schmo, what if I write circuses? No-one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything...news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.' The second is from Jerome Charyn's The Tar Baby. In this novel the main character, Anatole, loses his... | |
 | Henry Louis Gates - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...bet you can't create the difference between a German and a redskin. What's your beef with me Bo Shmo, what if I write circuses? No one says a novel has...vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of old men saddled by demons. All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only... | |
 | Marc Chenetier - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...unsystematic.45 In less careful terms, Ishmael Reed throws the issue wide open: What's your beef with me Bo Shmo, what if I write circuses? No one says a novel has...o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.46 It would be an understatement to say that claims such as these were cause for debate. To... | |
 | Marc Chenetier - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...unsystematic.45 In less careful terms, Ishmael Reed throws the issue wide open: What's your beef with me Bo Shmo, what if I write circuses? No one says a novel has...o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.46 It would be an understatement to say that claims such as these were cause for debate. To... | |
 | Richard Walsh - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 210
...against the constraints upon the African-American literary tradition: "What's your beef with me Bo Shmo, what if I write circuses? No one says a novel has...anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o' clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons."3 The peculiar interest of Flight to Canada... | |
 | Steven Weisenburger - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...scene is most of all an occasion for Reed to defend his fictional practice as something carnivalesque ("What if I write circuses? No one says a novel has to be one thing"), improvisational (a way of "scatting"), and aggressively didactic (the dissing and other preachy invectives).... | |
 | William M. Banks - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...cultural symbols. Reed challenged those who dismissed the role of literary innovation. "No-one says the novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants...o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons."34 Reed's assault on dominant values, however, baffled many social activists, who sought more... | |
 | Michael Jarrett - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...purposes, could be seconding him when he has the protagonist of Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down declare: No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be...news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons. (1969:36) It is hardly shocking that both Reed and Coleman have been accused of being, in Reed's phrase,... | |
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What's your beef with me Bo Shmo, what if I write circuses? No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons. 
