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In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Stepto sets canonical works of African American literature in conversation with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father'.

"Contexts" presents a wealth of materials chosen by the editors to enrich the reader's understanding of these canonical stories, including a map of the landscape of the conjure tales, Chesnutt's journal entry as he began writing fiction of the South, as well as writings by Chesnutt, William Wells Brown, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others, on the stories' central motifs--folklore, superstition, voodoo, race, and social identity in the South following the Civil War "Criticism" is divided into two parts. "Early Criticism" collects critical notices forThe Conjure Woman that suggest...