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

ISBN-13: 9781137270474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 189 str.

Kameelah L. Martin

Opis

The monograph engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in twentieth century fiction, constructing a historiography of the conjure woman as a recurring literary archetype. I develop a new vocabulary

Recenzje

"Martin's work remedies a gap in academic scholarship that has overlooked the critical role that the conjurer woman has played in literature, and this work seems to elevate her to the status of cultural icon." (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Kameelah L. Martin is a Vistiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Houston.