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.
表中的内容
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
关于作者
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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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 189 ● ISBN 9781137336811 ● 文件大小 1.0 MB ● 出版者 Palgrave Macmillan US ● 市 New York ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2012 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2665111 ● 复制保护 社会DRM