Conjuring Moments in African American Literature

Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo

Kameelah L Martin author K Samuel author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:28th Dec '12

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Conjuring Moments in African American Literature cover

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.

“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)

ISBN: 9781137270474

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 380g

189 pages