SOURCE: Bryant, Jerry H. “Who? Jes Grew? Like Topsy? No, Not Like Topsy.” Nation 215, no. 8 (25 September 1972): 245-47.
In the following essay, Bryant praises Reed's synthesis of history and fiction in Mumbo Jumbo, placing the novel within the context of Reed's other fictional work.
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