Mumbo Jumbo - (Scribner Paperback Fiction) by Ishmael Reed (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The classic freewheeling look at race relations through the ages.</b> <p/><i>Mumbo Jumbo</i> 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, <i>Mumbo Jumbo </i>is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>The Saturday Review</i> A HooDoo thriller, an all-out assault on Western civilization...Reed's best novel.<br><br><i>The Boston Globe</i> Brilliant, phantasmal, eccentric...A visionary comic myth.<br><br><i>The New York Times</i> Part vision, part satire, part farce...A wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of fiction and witchcraft.<br><br>Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Author of <i>Colored people</i> From its title on, <i>Mumbo Jumbo</i> serves as a critique of black and Western literary forms and conventions, and of the complex relationships between the two.<br><br>James Baldwin A great writer.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books including <i>Mumbo Jumbo</i>, <i>Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down</i>, <i> Conjugating Hindi, </i><i> Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico</i> and most recently <i>Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues </i>and <i>The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda</i>. 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 <i>CounterPunch </i>and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. Reed is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.
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