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Ishmael Scott Reed

イシュメール・スコット・リード

Ishumēru Sukotto Rīdo

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1938-02-22 （Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.）
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Buffalo, New York → Lower East Side, New York City → Oakland, California

経歴

職業
poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, songwriter, composer, editor, publisher, professor
活動期間
1960年〜2025年
所属
University of California, Berkeley, California College of the Arts, Before Columbus Foundation, Ishmael Reed Publishing Company
影響を受けた人物
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Beat poets, James Baldwin, Nathanael West, Musicians such as Sun Ra
影響を与えた人物
Terry McMillan (workshop alumnus), Mona Simpson (workshop alumnus), A generation of multicultural writers and editors

学歴

University at Buffalo
期間: 1958–1960
国: United States
Withdrew in junior year; left to pursue writing and music.

受賞歴

National Book Awards (Finalist)
1973
対象作品: Conjure / Mumbo Jumbo
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: Nominated
Pulitzer Prize (Nominated)
1973
対象作品: Conjure
主催: Pulitzer Prize
結果: Nominated
Guggenheim Fellowship
1975
部門: Writing Fellowship
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: Honored
Honorary Doctorate
1995
主催: University at Buffalo
結果: Honored
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award
1997
主催: Lila Wallace Association
結果: Honored
MacArthur Fellowship
1997
主催: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
結果: Honored
Fred Cody Award
1999
主催: Bay Area Book Reviewers Association
結果: Honored
Otto René Castillo Political Theatre Award
2002
部門: Theatre
主催: Otto René Castillo
結果: Honored
Barbary Coast Award
2011
主催: San Francisco literary festival (Litquake)
結果: Honored
Literary Legacy Award
2014
主催: Just Buffalo Literary Center
結果: Honored
Alberto Dubito International Prize
2016
部門: International prize
主催: Premio Alberto Dubito
結果: Honored
AUDELCO Pioneer Award
2017
部門: Theatre
主催: AUDELCO
結果: Honored
Distinguished Emeritus Awardee
2020
主催: The University of California
結果: Honored
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (Lifetime Achievement)
2022
部門: Lifetime Achievement
主催: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
結果: Honored
Hurston/Wright Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award
2023
部門: Lifetime Achievement
主催: Hurston/Wright Foundation
結果: Honored

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Mumbo Jumbo

1972年 Novel (postmodern, satirical)

A sprawling, experimental novel set in 1920s New York that reimagines American history from African and African-American perspectives, blending satire, myth, and ritual.

revisionist historyAfrican-American culturetrickster and spiritual motifs

Conjure: Selected Poems, 1963–1970

1972年 Poetry

A selected collection of poems from the 1960s showcasing experimental forms and folkloric, ritualistic language.

hoodoo/folk spiritualitymusic and rhythm

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

1969年 Novel (satire, postmodern)

An early major work parodying Southern myths and popular culture, using linguistic play and satire to critique American history.

deconstruction of American mythslanguage play

Flight to Canada

1976年 Novel (neo-slave narrative)

A parody/history novel dealing with slavery and its memory; associated with discussions of the 'neo-slave narrative'.

retelling of slaverymixing history and fiction

Conjugating Hindi

2018年 Novel (political satire)

An experimental novel exploring intersections between African-American and South Asian American cultures through political satire.

multiculturalismpolitical satire

全著作

  • The Freelance Pallbearers, 1967
  • Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, 1969
  • Mumbo Jumbo, 1972
  • The Last Days of Louisiana Red, 1974
  • Flight to Canada, 1976
  • The Terrible Twos, 1982
  • Reckless Eyeballing, 1986
  • Japanese by Spring, 1993
  • Juice!, 2011
  • Conjugating Hindi, 2018
  • The Terrible Fours, 2021
  • The Man Who Haunted Himself, 2022

翻案

  • Appearances in documentaries (as himself) and theatrical productions

作風・主題

文体
satiricalexperimental/postmodernNeo-HooDoo / multicultural
頻出モチーフ
revisionist historytrickster figuresmusic (especially jazz) and rhythmAfrican diasporic religion/ritual

評価・遺産

Ishmael Reed is known as an experimental and satirical voice in American letters who linked multiculturalism and African-American perspectives across literature, theater, and music. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he has promoted cultural diversity, supported younger writers, and received numerous honors including lifetime achievement awards.

記念館・博物館

  • Ishmael Reed: An Exhibition (University of Delaware Library) Newark, Delaware — University of Delaware Library 2007年開館

関連学会

  • PEN Oakland (regional writers' organization)

資料所蔵先

  • University of Delaware Special Collections (Ishmael Reed papers)

大衆文化への影響

  • Poem 'When I Die I Will Go to Jazz' installed at SFJAZZ Center North Gate
  • 'Just Rollin' Along' included in The Best American Poetry 2019

引用

  • My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
    出典: Interview with Parul Sehgal (2011) (2011年)
  • So this is what we want: to sabotage history. They won't know whether we're serious or whether we are writing fiction ... Always keep them guessing.
    出典: Interview (various sources)

豆知識

  • Founded the Before Columbus Foundation and has been involved in running the American Book Awards.
  • Served as editor/publisher of small presses and journals since the 1970s (e.g., Yardbird Reader).
  • Used the term 'Neo-Slave narrative' in discussions of his work.