Reckless Eyeballing (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ishmael Reed
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: New York City and the fictional Caribbean island of New Oyo
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Caribbean, Politics, Racism, New York City, 1980’s, Feminism, Punishment, Drama or dramatists, Nazism or Nazis, Theater
- Locales: Caribbean, New York, NY, Islands, New Oyo, Caribbean
Characters Discussed
Ian Ball, a black playwright in his late twenties or early thirties. Ian was born and reared by his mother on the fictional Caribbean island of New Oyo. Ian misses the easy lifestyle and predictable character of what he calls the South. Ian’s first play produced in Manhattan, Suzanna, was a great success, but it was heavily criticized as sexist by feminist critics. Ian is staging his second play, Reckless Eyeballing. After Ian’s friend and director, Jim Minsk, is viciously killed by a group of white racists and anti-Semites, Ian weathers...
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