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Ishmael Reed

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Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, composer, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging American political culture. Perhaps his best-known work is Mumbo Jumbo (1972), a sprawling and unorthodox novel set in 1920s New York.

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Mumbo Jumbo
Ishmael Reed
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In 1920s America, a Vodun priest and private eye, Papa LaBas, fights a global puritanical group to protect the growing jazz movement from an 'epidemic' of Black artistic expression and find an ancient text that could ensure its freedom.