Identity Crisis in Ishmael Reed’s Reckless Eyeballing
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
In Reckless Eyeballing Ishmael Reed attacks on what he calls the hypocrisies and contradictions of the feminist movement. It is an outrageously funny novel about a black playwright, Ian Ball, who has been sexlisted (equivalent to the 1950’s blacklists of suspected communists). As the novel opens, Ball has written a new play, also called ‘Reckless Eyeballing,’ that he hopes will appease powerful New York white feminists and their black women supporters.
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Dr. R. Krishnaveni
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