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Title	:	Mumbo Jumbo
Author	:	Ishmael Reed
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	June 11th 1996 by Scribner (first published August 1972)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Cultural. African American. Classics. Race. Literature. 20th Century

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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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Original Title:	Mumbo Jumbo
ISBN:	0684824779 (ISBN13: 9780684824772)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1973)

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Part alternate world fantasy, part meta-critique of the aesthetic values of Western Civilization, Mumbo Jumbo is probably best understood as an evocation, a Working, to use the books own vernacular, mockingly(?) supposing itself to herald or call forth a leveling of the white power structure and the birth of a new, multicultural age. This is Crying of Lot 49 meets The Fire Next Time, fascinatingly clever, innovative in a dozen ways. Theres so much great stuff in here that the missteps, in

I'm often leery when friends of mine lend me their favorite books. How soon do you expect me to read this? You know I have a stack of books the size of an end table still to read, right? What if, though this has never before happened in the 25+ years I've been a regular reader, I should lose or damage the book? Most intimidating of all, what if I don't like the read or what if I find it to be so bad that my opinion of you as a friend is changed due to your devotion to these pages? After more

Published in 1972 but set in the 1920s it's one of the best novels of Ismael's 50-year writing career and is written in a free stying jazz style to match the jazz era it brings to life. Photographs, newspaper cuttings, handwritten notes and footnotes all feature throughout. The style is sometimes hard to follow, sometimes frustrating but in the end, it's rewarding and leaves you feeling slightly inebriated. Mumbo Jumbo is a work of slightly absurd and unfettered imagination.

"Time is a pendulum. Not a river. More akin to what goes around comes around." Mumbo Jumbo be our current politic or realpolitik and Jes Grew and it Templars still banging in da streets all over dis land, lordy we gots troubles many don't kid yerselves shit going down. Da pendulum done swung and we swamped like this here book will eat yer lunch and spit it out. Readit and weep. Out ya'll.

In brief: Mumbo Jumbo tracks the growing infestation of "Jes Grew" from Chicago eastward as it heads to 1920s NYC. Everyone in the Harlem Renaissance is at least named, and often appears in a scene or two. Cab Calloway. Langston Hughes. What Jes Grew is is a need to dance and shake your booty, and it turns out that this urge has been suppressed by a certain fascistic group dating back to Ancient Egypt. The Knights Templarso beloved by a lot of backward looking storytellers nowadaysare painted as

What a tasty gumbo MUMBO JUMBO by Ishmael Reed is! Its so thick Im tempted to eat it with a fork, but Im going a use a spoon, so I can get every last drop! Its chock full of story, images, excepts, news items, memos, letters, history, mystery, myth, all glued together with hoodoo, which is to say magic. It reads like John Dos Passos USA TRILOGY, with its kaleidoscopic collage technique, but its a lot funkier and funnier. Who says you cant laugh at white supremacy? This is the history of a race

Great concept and style but I dont think Ive been in the right mood for this kind of book.