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The Free-Lance Pallbearers Study Guide

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by Ishmael Reed
About 3 pages (951 words)
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"One of the problems with monoethnic critics approaching my work is that they don't know the full scope of the traditions I'm drawing upon," says Reed, who is African American; "As I learn more and more about differing cultures in this country, the gap between my work and the viewpoint of some critics — especially those in the northeast — widens, and the critics become very frustrated. They call my style idiosyncratic; yet my style is older than the European tradition."

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The Free-Lance Pallbearers from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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