Conjuring moments in African American literature Women, spirit work, and other such hoodoo /
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 America...
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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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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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137270474, 2012. |
Carrier Form: | 198 p. |
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9781137270474 9781137336811 : 1137336811 : |
CLC: | I712.06 |
Contents: | 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. |