Flight to Canada By Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada is about both writing and history. It depicts a lot of history through the eyes of a slave in a funny and witty way. Flight to Canada is a satirical novel written by American poet and writer Ishmael Reed in 1976. Ishmael Reed established himself as a powerful voice in the black literary canon with his magical realist novel Mumbo Jumbo. Flight to Canada, with its parodic take on the traditional slave narrative, is yet another game-changer.

The story is set in a different Civil War era, just as a disease infects slaves with the desire to flee their owners. Ravallen Quickskill is one such slave who will accept nothing less than Canada. His journey is marked by a quirky mix of historical fact and twentieth-century modernities—Abe Lincoln and Xerox machines, for example—that provides a unique but insightful view of slavery in America.

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