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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Tabela de Conteúdo
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
Sobre o autor
Kameelah L. Martin is a Vistiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Houston.
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Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 189 ● ISBN 9781137336811 ● Tamanho do arquivo 1.0 MB ● Editora Palgrave Macmillan US ● Cidade New York ● País US ● Publicado 2012 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 2665111 ● Proteção contra cópia DRM social
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