Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ishmael Reed
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Comic epic
- Time of Work: 1801-1809, during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson
- Setting: Yellow Back Radio, a town in the Old West, and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: The Loop Garoo Kid, Drag Gibson, Mustache Sal, Chief Showcase, Field Marshall Theda Doompussy Blackwell, Pete the Peek, Congressman, Pope Innocent
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: Washington, D.C.
The Novel
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down begins in the epic manner, establishing the epic stature of the hero, the Loop Garoo Kid, and previewing the main line of the action. The novel is cosmic in scope. Loop has existed at least since the ancient Egyptian civilization and will still be around to play the Las Vegas casinos in the twentieth century. He appears now as a black circus cowboy, traveling in the early nineteenth century on the American frontier, in the company of a dancing bear, a juggler, a barker, and a HooDoo woman, Zozo Labrique. Within the larger time...
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