SOURCE: Swope, Richard. “Crossing Western Space, or the HooDoo Detective on the Boundary in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo.” African American Review 36, no. 4 (winter 2002): 611-28.
In the following essay, Swope examines how Mumbo Jumbo fits into the genre of detective fiction.
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