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
The monograph engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in twentieth century fiction, constru...
In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney s Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion as an archetype, however, has a much longer history steeped in the colonial othering of Haitian Vodou and American imperialist fantasies about so-called black magic . Within this cinematic study, Martin unravels how religious autonomy impacts the identity, function, and perception of Africana women in...
In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney s Prin...
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.
This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces...
