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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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Main Authors: Martin, Kameelah L
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > USA
Cultural studies > USA
Literature
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137336811
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9781137270474, 2012.
Carrier Form: 198 p.
ISBN: 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.

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