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Ishmael Reed an African American writer of essays, novels, and poems, was best known for writing satirical novels. Ishmael Reed in his The Terrible Twos launches a scathing attack on the social, economic, political, religious and academic institutions of the American mainstream life with a Swiftian irony. The Terrible Twos assails the economic, political and social exploitation of the blacks by the whites in American Society. In this select novel Reed's fundamental strategy as a satirist is portrayed. The present article portrays Ishmael Reed�s satire in The Terrible Twos

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