Mumbo Jumbo

副标题: Jumbo

ISBN: 9780684824772

出版社: Simon & Schuster

出版年: 1996-06-11

页数: 223

定价: $14.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages

Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of our preeminent African-American authors, mixes portraits of historical figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture.

作者简介

Ishmael Scott Reed (February 22, 1938) is an American poet, essayist and novelist. Reed is one of the best-known African-American writers of his generation, and along with Amiri Baraka is one of the most controversial (and politically left-wing). His work consistently satirizes the American right-wing (and often the left as well), highlighting domestic, political, and cultural oppression. While some have found Reed's work a vivid, comic depiction of America, others have criticized it as incoherent or muddled[citation needed]. Another group of public intellectuals has argued that some of Reed's work is misogynistic because of his criticism of the movie version of The Color Purple, which the novel's author, Alice Walker, also criticized

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