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Mumbo Jumbo was first published in hardback in 1972 by Doubleday in New York, with its cover featuring a photograph of Josephine Baker chosen by the author, who later recalled meeting Baker in the last year of her life and giving her a copy of the book. [14] The novel has remained continuously in print in the decades since its first edition.
Mumbo Jumbo is a West African word often cited by historians and etymologists as deriving from the Mandinka word "Maamajomboo", which refers to a masked male dancer who takes part in religious ceremonies. [1] In the 18th century Mumbo Jumbo referred to a West African god.
The Book of Lost Souls is an American dark fantasy comic book series by J. Michael Straczynski with art by Colleen Doran [1] and published under the Icon Comics imprint, owned by Marvel Comics. The comic follows Jonathan, a man who lived over a century ago who was transported to the 21st century during an attempted suicide.
Mumbo Jumbo commonly refers to: Mumbo jumbo (phrase), an English phrase for a meaningless ritual or nonsense; Mumbo Jumbo may also refer to: Music.
(2011), Conjugating Hindi (2018), and most recently The Terrible Fours, third in his "Terribles" series and published by Baraka Books of Montreal in June 2021. [21] To commemorate its 50 years in print, in 2022, Scribner's released a new edition of his third novel, Mumbo Jumbo, cited by Harold Bloom as one of 500 great books of the Western ...
It continues the story of the character Papa LaBas introduced in Reed's previous novel, 1972's Mumbo Jumbo. The book emphasises voodoo. [1] [2] According to Kirkus Reviews, "Reed's hoodoo/mojo/gris gris/Mumbo Jumbo has a wickedly funny vitality that undermines white European ideology." [3]
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Lost Souls (Brite novel), a 1992 horror novel by Poppy Z. Brite; Lost Souls (Koontz novel), a 2010 Frankenstein novel by Dean Koontz; Lost Souls, a 2010 book by Lena Herzog; Lost Souls, in Marvel Comics, a tribe of the fictional superhumans the Neo