As the title suggests, Mumbo Jumbo is a whole bunch of mumbo jumbo. The writing is all over the place! As soon as I opened up the book, I knew I was in for a ride.
Mumbo Jumbo is pretty much the definition of a postmodernist book. The first chapter starts before the title page, there are pictures throughout the book, there are no quotation marks during dialogue, there are a ton of one-page chapters, and I'm sure even more unconventional things will pop up as the book continues.
Through what I've read, I've seen that "jes grew" is some epidemic that makes people go crazy, speak in tongues, and move differenty and people are trying to figure out how it works. But it really isn't actually a disease through my interpretation, perhaps it is just a representation of how people were acting at the time. The first chapter drew my attention and that's always a good sign when I'm reading a book. Overall, I think the plot has a lot of potential to be very interesting and should prove to be very exciting.
The style of writing definitely intrigues me and I'm looking forward to see more of what Ishmael Reed is able to do to make the book his own style of writing. I really like reading his free-flowing, undefined style of writing. It makes the book a lot more interesting since it's no way at all a conventional book. All in all, I feel like this book will be a fun and interesting read for me.
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