Flight to Canada

Ishmael Reed’s parody of slave narratives—the classical literature of the African American tradition—which redefined the neo-slave genre and launched a lucrative academic industry Some parodies are as necessary as the books they answer. Such is the case with  Flight to Canada , Ishmael Reed’s scathing, offbeat response to conventional anti-slavery novels such as  Uncle Tom’s Cabin . Though  Flight to Canada has been classified by some as a “post race” novel, the vil