Mumbo Jumbo

Reed, Ishmael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689707304 ISBN 13: 9780689707308

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1989

This novel examines the African-American culture and its deflation.

Review:

James Baldwin A great writer.

The New York Times Part vision, part satire, part farce...A wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of fiction and witchcraft.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Author of Colored people From its title on, Mumbo Jumbo serves as a critique of black and Western literary forms and conventions, and of the complex relationships between the two.

The Boston Globe Brilliant, phantasmal, eccentric...A visionary comic myth.

The Saturday Review A "HooDoo" thriller, an all-out assault on Western civilization...Reed's best novel.

About the Author:

Ishmael Reed, a novelist, poet, essayist, and activist, is the author of more than a dozen books. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth and is currently a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California.