Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo

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This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137270474
ISBN-10: 1137270470
Pagini: 189
Ilustrații: VIII, 189 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:2012
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. 'Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live': Women and Spirit Work 2. From Farce to Folk Hero; or a 20th Century Revival of the Conjure Woman 3. Troubling the Water: Conjure and Christ 4. Of Blues Narratives and Conjure Magic: A Symbiotic Dialectic

Recenzii

“Martin’s work remedies a gap in academic scholarship that has overlooked the critical role that the conjurer woman has played in literature, and this work seems to elevate her to the status of cultural icon.” (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)

Notă biografică

Kameelah L. Martin is a Vistiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Houston.

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