Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo

by K. Samuel and Kameelah L Martin

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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.
  • ISBN13 9781137270474
  • Publish Date 28 December 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 189
  • Language English