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Mumbo Jumbo Paperback - 1996

by Ishmael Reed


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The classic freewheeling look at race relations through the ages.Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of our preeminent African American authors, mixes portraits of historical figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture.

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Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society.

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  • Title Mumbo Jumbo
  • Author Ishmael Reed
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
  • Date 1996-06-11
  • ISBN 9780684824772 / 0684824779
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.08 x 0.52 in (20.98 x 12.90 x 1.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Black Issues Book Review, 01/01/2002, Page 30
  • New York Times, 09/01/1996, Page 24

About the author

Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books and plays, including Mumbo Jumbo, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Flight to Canada, Conjugating Hindi, Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico, Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues, The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the Audible originals Malcolm and Me and The Fool Who Thought Too Much. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor to CounterPunch and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, Reed taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for over thirty years. He has received the MacArthur Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award. Reed has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.
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