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Journal Article
Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 169–192.
Published: 01 November 2002
... , Ted . The History of Jazz . New York: Oxford UP, 1977 . Gover , Robert . “An Interview with Ishmael Reed.” Black American Literature Forum 12 ( 1978 ): 12 –19. Hogue , W. Lawrence . “Historiographic Metafiction and the Celebration of Differences: Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo.” Ed...
View articletitled, Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and the African American Narrative: Major’s Reflex, Morrison’s Jazz, and Reed’s <span class="search-highlight">Mumbo</span> Jumbo
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Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Phillip Brian Harper Abstract Observing that Ishmael Reed's 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo both oscillates between present‐ and past‐tense narration and traffics in historical anachronism, this article argues that these dual modes of temporal disjunction establish the novel as a work of historical allegory...
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Journal Article
Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 151–168.
Published: 01 November 2002
... of postmodem black fiction;
thus, postmodemism in Gates's account works more as an hermeneutic aid than
as a periodizing category. But in his chapter on Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo,
Gates does make certain gestures toward a periodizing notion of the postmod-
ern. Reed is the only novelist considered...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (3): 381–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of virtual reality technology in his astute account of Richard Powers's novel Plowing the Dark ; Kent Puckett sees the novel form at work in political documents; Phillip Brian Harper shows how the inclusion of photographs in Ishmael Reed's novel Mumbo Jumbo forces us to think about the form and political...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (3): 510–514.
Published: 01 November 2010
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ture laid the groundwork for the form of cultural pluralism that in turn provides the basis
for the essentialist concepts of identity we encounter in such works as Momaday’s House
Made of Dawn, Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo, and Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera. Here Douglas
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Journal Article
Novel (2011) 44 (1): 159–163.
Published: 01 May 2011
... writers
to relinquish their attachment to race. What becomes of race in our even more modernist
(or postmodern) moment wherein race is simultaneously everywhere and therefore going
nowhere? Duvall’s conclusion addresses this question by running from it. Here he reads
Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., the sinister foreign.
Except for Houdini, who nonetheless had something swarthy about him” (57–58).
The only term left out here is “mumbo-jumbo,” also the title of Ishmael Reed’s
1972 novel, which is also an African American novel about a text that, like Fulton’s
plans for the Black Box, is divided...
Journal Article
Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2002
... to a conscious-
ness of contemporary forms of slavery. Reed himself has encouraged this inter-
pretation, though he is reluctant to use the term "anachronism." In a 1974
interview he says about his novel Mumbo Jumbo, "I wanted to write about a time
like the present, or to use the past to prophesy about...
Journal Article
Novel (2021) 54 (3): 404–424.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of the relation between numbers, stars, and the dance ( S 96–98)—delivered while he stands naked before an equally unclothed Simón—is equally bizarre. Simón calls the mystical philosophy of the academy “claptrap” ( S 99) and “mumbo-jumbo” ( S 103). Yet David, no longer the “knock-kneed” and “awkward” runner...
