Mumbo Jumbo, an innovative novel, weaves historical events and imaginative storytelling into a rich tapestry. Set in the 1920s Harlem, it introduces Jes Grew, a contagious outbreak of joy and ...
Mumbo Jumbo is an experimental, postmodern novel that adopts more textbook-like features than traditional novelistic ones. It includes illustrations, footnotes, and a bibliography.
The end of the poem suggests that Congolese culture was all but supplanted by Christian interlopers who worked to ensure that "Mumbo-Jumbo is dead in the jungle.
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 ...
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.
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 title "Mumbo Jumbo" refers to language or rituals that cause confusion, aligning with the novel's experimental style and commentary on language's power to bewilder.
Mumbo Jumbo and the Critique of Dualism Ishmael Reed’s novel Mumbo Jumbo critiques the notion of a fixed Black identity, instead portraying Blackness as fluid and multifaceted.
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.
A Confederacy of Dunces follows the story of Ignatius O'Reilly, a slovenly, overweight, gluttonous, and slightly deranged thirty-year-old. Ignatius fancies himself an intellectual and feels ...
