PARODIC DECONSTRUCTION OF THE WEST AND/OR WESTERN IN ISHMAEL REED’S YELLOW BACK RADIO BROKE DOWN
PARODIC DECONSTRUCTION OF THE WEST AND/OR WESTERN IN ISHMAEL REED’S YELLOW BACK RADIO BROKE DOWN
Author(s): Artur JaupajSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: parody; intertextuality; loas; Neo-Hoodoo aesthetics; postmodern western
Summary/Abstract: Ishmael Reed’s Yellow Back Radio Broke Down (1969) provides an outstanding example of the carnivalesque literature and/or “postmodern western,” as I dare to name it, of the 1960s by fusing self-reflexive elements and parodying the classic Western clichés. What is more, the novel operates through the African loas of Hoodoo.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 141-148
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
