In its main plot, Hinckle Von Vampton attempts to restore the Knights Templar by creating a Talking Android to undermine the Harlem Renaissance, in order to help the Wallflower Order fight an epidemic causing white people to dance.
At the end of this novel, its protagonist exposes Hubert "Safecracker" Gould as a white man in blackface, and explains that Moses had sex with Isis to learn "The Work," a book consisting of the original dances of Osiris. The protagonist deciphers that that book is buried under the center of the Cotton Club, but learns that it was burnt by Abdul Hamid. In one of this novel's subplots, the Mu'tafikah plot to steal artworks from the Center of Art Detention and return them to their native cultures, only for Thor Wintergreen to betray them to Biff Musclewhite. In its main plot, Hinckle Von Vampton attempts to restore the Knights Templar by creating a Talking Android to undermine the Harlem Renaissance, in order to help the Wallflower Order fight an epidemic causing white people to dance. That epidemic threatens the power of the Atonists, and is called Jes Grew. For 10 points, identify this Ishmael Reed novel named for the voodoo practices of PaPa LaBas.
At the end of this novel, its protagonist exposes Hubert "Safecracker" Gould as a white man in blackface, and explains that Moses had sex with Isis to learn "The Work," a book consisting of the original dances of Osiris.
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