Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
(Sprache: Englisch)
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,...
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Conjuring Moments in African American Literature “
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
Autoren-Porträt von K. Samuel, Kameelah L. Martin
Kameelah L. Martin is a Vistiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Houston.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: K. Samuel , Kameelah L. Martin
- 2012, 2012., 189 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137270470
- ISBN-13: 9781137270474
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Englisch
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