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
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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