SOURCE: Cowley, Julian. “What If I Write Circuses?: The Space of Ishmael Reed's Fiction.” Callaloo 17, no. 4 (fall 1994): 1236-44.
In the following essay, Cowley argues that Reed's literary aesthetic is “expansive and inclusive,” contending that Reed is trying to establish a collective identity for America as well as a “diverse, plural space, in which ancient multisensory experience and modern technological resources may combine to engender vital and creative cultural formations.”
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