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Conjuring Moments in African American Literature

Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9781349444342
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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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ISBN13:9781349444342
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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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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        Conjuring Moments in African American Literature