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1. What happens when the Mayor of New Orleans responds to the Jes Grew outbreak?

The Mayor shows up at the hospital and his girlfriend starts to do the dances, then he starts to do the dances himself, and in the morning, and outbreak of 10,000 people is reported.

2. What definitions of the Jes Grew are offered at the beginning of Mumbo Jumbo?

The Jes Grew is described as an illness, as a dance craze, as an impulse that led people into a trancelike state of ecstatic dancing, a formless narrative about the black experience in Africa and the Americas, and a process by which songs developed.

3. What is Mumbo Jumbo’s relationship with history?

The book is a novel, but it invokes numerous historical figures such as Louis Armstrong, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Warren G. Harding, Harry Daugherty, his Attorney General, and the Knights Templar.

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