- Published: 15 August 2017
- ISBN: 9780241305812
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $32.99
Mumbo Jumbo
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- Published: 15 August 2017
- ISBN: 9780241305812
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $32.99
Ishmael Reed's extraordinary and expansive collage novel [is] a conduit for his surging torrent of interrelating arguments about race, religion, history, music and literature ... it reminds readers of the charged relationship between medium and message, issuing an avant-garde challenge to read and to think as innovatively as they way in which the novel is written. Mumbo Jumbo is urgent, imaginative, hilarious, and deeply attuned to the exigencies of social and cultural capital.
Rona Cran, Times Literary Supplement
A dazzling classic ... exhilarating ... like jazz, the novel feels improvisatory and ambitious [...] It is a funny book about conspiracy theories that nonetheless feels serious and true. A philosophical and ingenious American race satire
Guardian