The political conspiracies of Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo

Historical relativism and the contemporary battle for power

by

Benjamin Clark Bishop, Jr.

A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty

in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

MASTER OF ARTS

Major: English (Literature)

AN AMERICAN EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT INTERPRETS MUMBO JUMBO
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8109&context=rtd

TABLE OF CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION 1


THE POLITICAL CONSPIRACY 13


THE MASONIC CONSPIRACY 36


THE LITERARY AND ART CONSPIRACY 44


CONCLUSION 53

WORKS CITED 57




Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and the Uses of Parody

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Published 1991 8 Pages
https://www.academia.edu/3670280/Ishmael_Reeds_Mumbo_Jumbo_and_the_Uses_of_Parody

PERFORMANCE, HISTORY, AND MYTH: THE PROBLEM OF ISHMAEL REED'S "MUMBO-JUMBO"
Theodore O. Mason, Jr.
Modern Fiction Studies
Vol. 34, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: MODERN BLACK FICTION (Spring 1988), pp. 97-109
Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26282406
Page Count: 13
Topics: Novels, United States history, Cultural history, Modern literature, Literary criticism, Selective employment taxes, Writers, Historicity, Verisimilitude

Laughter and Identity in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo
Sharon A. Jessee
MELUS, Volume 21, Issue 4, December 1996, Pages 127–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/467645
Published:
01 December 1996

Ishmael Reed and the postmodern slave narrative

Glen Anthony Harris

Comparative American Studies An International Journal

Volume 5, 2007 - Issue 4

Published online: 18 Jul 2013

Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and the African American Narrative: Major’s Reflex, Morrison’s Jazz, and Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo 

W. LAWRENCE HOGUE

Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 169–192.

https://doi.org/10.2307/1346182

Playing with Expectations

Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel

Series: 

• Modern American Literature

Preston Park Cooper

Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques. This book examines novels by Ishmael Reed, Charles Johnson, and Toni Morrison, and two novels by comparative newcomer Colson Whitehead – all of whom have used postmodern techniques not only to help their work be read, but to gain a racially wide audience that is open, willing, and able to understand.
Jean-François Lyotard’s concept of local narratives and grand narratives helps show how African American novels, using postmodern strategies, function as small-scale narratives. Consequently, these narratives, set up in opposition to hegemonic metanarratives, offer readers an alternative mode of thinking to that offered by the larger, more widely diffused and self-distributing grand narratives. By providing realistic characters in ways that defy the typical grand narratives of race, as well as the expectations of storytelling itself, readers are stimulated into new realizations about previously accepted ideas, and become prepared to spread the now-realized truth about the inaccuracies of the racist grand narratives.
This book is a vital and thought-provoking addition to the ongoing conversation about storytelling and race, and will engage readers in classroom discussions dealing with race, postmodernism, or twentieth-century literature in a more general sense. Show Less

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  Multicultural noise and Ishmael Reed's “Mumbo Jumbo”

  Westerfield, Dean.California State University, Long Beach, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2005. 1426967.  https://search.proquest.com/openview/180a18c8aaa728f5ccb16734439ab197/1.pdf?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
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Rethinking Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo: Neo-Hoodoo ...

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RETHINKING ISHMAEL REED'S MUMBO JUMBO: NEO-HOODOO WOMANIST TEXT? Northward and Cityward: Re-reading Literature of the Great Migration.

Jazz and Signifying in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo

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