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.
İçerik tablosu
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
Yazar hakkında
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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Dil İngilizce ● Biçim PDF ● Sayfalar 189 ● ISBN 9781137336811 ● Dosya boyutu 1.0 MB ● Yayımcı Palgrave Macmillan US ● Kent New York ● Ülke US ● Yayınlanan 2012 ● İndirilebilir 24 aylar ● Döviz EUR ● Kimlik 2665111 ● Kopya koruma Sosyal DRM