Mumbo Jumbo (novel)

Mumbo Jumbo
First edition
AuthorIshmael Reed
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
1972
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
ISBN0-385-05675-3
OCLC35158152
Preceded byYellow Back Radio Broke-Down 
Followed byThe Last Days of Louisiana Red 

Mumbo Jumbo is a 1972 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed, originally published by Doubleday in New York. The novel has remained continuously in print in the decades since its first edition. It was first published in the UK by Allison and Busby, and has been published in translation in several languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, as well as a Chinese translation in 2019. The novel was released as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2017.