Conjuring Moments in African American Literature

Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo

K. Samuel, Kenneth A. Loparo (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

189 Seiten

2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-27047-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Zusatzinfo	VIII, 189 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-137-27047-0 / 1137270470
ISBN-13	978-1-137-27047-4 / 9781137270474
Zustand	Neuware