Samuel Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-33681-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
E-Book, Englisch, 189 Seiten
Reihe: Palgrave Literature Collection
ISBN: 978-1-137-33681-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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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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




