Mumbo Jumbo Author:Ishmael Reed Mumbo Jumbo is an novel about writing itself--not only in the figurative sense of the postmodern, self-reflexive text but alos in the literal sense...{It} is both a book about texts and a book of texts, a composite narrative of subtexts, pretexts, posttexts, and narratives-within-narratives. It is both a definintion of Afro-American Culture and ... more »its deflation. 'The Big Lie concerning Afro-American culture.'« less