Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
- Auflage
- 1st ed.
- Ort / Verlag
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- 01 02 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 and framework (conjuring moments) with which to articulate a critical discourse surrounding the black conjuring woman and the use of African-centered cosmologies as a trope in African American literature. I argue that within the last century, African American writers have subverted the negative connotation of women and spirit work through their literary expressions. The conjure woman figure has evolved as a bio-mythography used to resist the subjugation and marginalization of black women and provides critical socio-cultural commentary, a role currently unmatched by other black female models and characterizations. 02 02 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. 13 02 Kameelah Martin Samuel is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. 19 02 FILLS A GAP: While there is a body of scholarship examining the nuances of other black female figures, a gap exists where the conjure woman is concerned. FAR-REACHING: This book connects a specific literary archetype with large conversations of representation and stereotype and female agency and mobility. TIMELY: The work in oral history and folklore fits well with current trends in academia. 04 02 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
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781137336811, 1137336811, 9781137270474, 1137270470, 1349444340, 9781349444342DOI: 10.1057/9781137336811Titel-ID: cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781137336811
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- 20th century, African American aesthetics, African American women in literature, African Culture, African Languages, African Literature, African Literature, Language&Linguistics, African Religion, American / African American, American fiction, American Literature, Cultural studies, Feminist, History and criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Literature, Literature & literary studies, Literature and folklore, Magicians in literature, North American Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Postcolonial/World Literature, Religious Studies, general, World Literatures