Further Reading
- Elias, Amy, "Oscar Hijuelos's The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo, and Robert Coover's The Public Burning," Critique 41, no. 2 (winter 2000): 115-28. (Elias examines alternate historical paradigms in the work of several postmodern novels, including Reed's Mumbo Jumbo.)
- Fleischer, Leonore, "Black Magic under Blue Skies," Washington Post Book World (10 August 1969): 3. (Fleischer offers a stylistic analysis of Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and suggests that the novel can be read as a comic satire.)
- Hardack, Richard, "Swing to the White, Back to the Black: Writing and ‘Sourcery’ in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo," Arizona Quarterly 49, no. 4 (winter 1993): 117-38. (Hardack examines Reed's literary aesthetic, placing Reed's work within the context of African American literature, and noting the influence of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Ralph Waldo Emerson on his fiction.)
- Harris, Norman, "The Gods Must Be Angry: Flight to Canada as Political History," Modern Fiction Studies 34, no. 1 (spring 1988): 111-23. (Harris explores Flight to Canada as a work of literature and a piece of social commentary that serves to “illuminate reactionary and progressive aspects of Afro-American political history.”)
- Musgrave, Marian E., "Ishmael Reed's Black Oedipus Cycle," Obsidian 6, no. 3 (winter 1980): 60-7. (Musgrave traces Reed's use of the Oedipal myth in his novel The Last Days of Louisiana Red.)
- Parks, John G., "Mining and Undermining the Old Plots: Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo," Centennial Review 39, no. 1 (winter 1995): 163-70. (Parks asserts that Mumbo Jumbo is a farcical attack on the “hegemony of the forms of Western discourse.”)
- Shadle, Mark, "A Bird's-Eye View: Ishmael Reed's Unsettling of the Score by Munching and Mooching on the Mumbo Jumbo Work of History," North Dakota Quarterly 54, no. 1 (winter 1986): 18-29. (Shadle offers a critical interpretation of Mumbo Jumbo.)
- Sissman, L. E., "Real and Unreal," New Yorker 45, no. 34 (11 October 1969): 199-202. (Sissman evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.)
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