FTP identify this author whose satires include Flight to Canada.
His collected essays were released in 2002 with the title Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War. Later novels like Reckless Eyeballing and The Terrible Threes were written in response to feminist criticism of early works such as Yellow Back Radio Broke Down. Henry Gates' Signifying Monkey cites his use of Hoodoo conventions in works like The Freelance Pall Bearers as a primary example of black literature's transformative style. The detective Papa LaBas (La-Bahh) is featured in two of his most famous works The Last Days of Louisiana Red and Mumbo Jumbo. FTP identify this author whose satires include Flight to Canada.
His collected essays were released in 2002 with the title Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War.
Ishmael Reed