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| Author | Ishmael Reed |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Publication date | 1976 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| 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. Reed himself has described the novel, as a "neo–slave narrative", and its influence has been identified in the work of Colson Whitehead.
References
- Charyn, Jerome (September 19, 1976). "Flight to Canada". The New York Times.
- Lucas, Julian (September 29, 2016). "New Black Worlds to Know". New York Review of Books.
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