UID:
almahu_9947363612402882
Format:
198 p.
ISBN:
9781137336811 :
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1137336811 :
Content:
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.
Note:
Electronic book text.
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Epublication based on: 9781137270474, 2012.
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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.
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Document
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PDF.
Language:
English
URL:
Online journal 'available contents' page
