Mumbo Jumbo, an innovative novel, weaves historical events and imaginative storytelling into a plain fabric. Set in the 1920s Harlem, it introduces Jes Grew, a contagious outbreak of joy and ...
SOURCE: Ludwig, Sämi. “Dialogic Possession in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo: Bakhtin, Voodoo, and the Materiality of Multicultural Discourse.” In The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African ...
PaPa LaBas, a HooDoo detective, is a venerable leader in the quest for cultural and spiritual revival through the Jes Grew movement. At fifty, he helms the Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral, tirelessly ...
Mumbo Jumbo emerges as a multifaceted work, intertwining a novel of ideas with a satirical critique. At its core, it is a postmodernist detective story that aligns itself with the traditions of ...
In Mumbo Jumbo Reed untangles the black mythic past from the negative symbology of Western religions and relocates the integrity of black magic and hoodoo in the artistic function of the Afro ...
The witches agree to tell Macbeth they know, and after some witchy mumbo jumbo, they turn over the apparition duties to their "masters," who know Macbeth's questions even before he asks them.
One day, their lives take a dramatic turn when Sikh terrorists destroy an Air India jumbo jet. Amazingly, two passengers survive the crash, landing safely in the English Channel.
A complex work, Mumbo Jumbo ostensibly is a detective tale. It tells the story of the leader of the Neo-HooDoo detectives, Papa LaBas, who recalls the Haitian deity Papa Legbas.
The secret is so heavy, of course, that it can only be revealed through the leader's interpretation of Das Kapital / visions of the Scripture / mumbo jumbo about the creative process.