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Mumbo jumbo

  • Inga Pellisa Díaz,
  • Ishmael Reed,
  • Ishmael Reed,
  • Juan Francisco Ferré

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Spanning a dizzying host of genres, from cinema to academia to mythology, Mumbo Jumbo is a lively ride through a key decade of American history the 1920's. In addition to ragtime, blues, and jazz, Reed's allegory draws on the Harlem Renaissance, the Back to Africa movement, and America's occupation of Haiti. His style throughout is as avant-garde and vibrant as the music at its center. From New Orleans to Chicago to New York, the "Jes Grew" epidemic makes people desperate to dance, overturning social norms in the process.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • African Americans
  • History
  • Fiction, general
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • African americans, fiction
  • New york (state), fiction
  • United states, social life and customs, fiction
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About the authors

  • Inga Pellisa Díaz

    4.00

    3 ratings · 25 works

  • Ishmael Reed

    born 1938

    3.00

    5 ratings · 114 works

  • Ishmael Reed

    4.00

    3 ratings · 15 works

  • Juan Francisco Ferré

    4.00

    3 ratings · 12 works

Editions

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    La Fuga Ediciones, S.L.

    Sep 23, 2016

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    La Fuga Ediciones, S.L.

    Sep 23, 2016

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    Doubleday

    Aug 01, 1972

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    Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Audible Studios on Brilliance

    Mar 24, 2020

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Avon

Apr 10, 1978

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    Atheneum

    1988

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    1st Scribner Paperback Fiction Ed edition

    Scribner

    June 11, 1996

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    [1st ed.]

    Doubleday

    1972

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    Editions de l'Olivier

    January 5, 1998

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    Atheneum

    1972

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2017

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2017

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2013

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2013

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2013

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    (1st ed.).

    Doubleday

    1972

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    Bard

    1978

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    Allison & Busby

    1989

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    Allison & Busby LTD

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    ZBS Foundation

    October 1, 2001

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    Avon

    March 1978

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    Atheneum

    1989

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    Avon Books

    1978