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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Martin, Kameelah L

Titel

Conjuring Moments in African American Literature : Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo [electronic resource]

Auflage

First edition

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Conjuring Moments in African American Literature; Contents; Copyright Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: ""Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live"": Women and Spirit Work; Colonial Continuities, or Ol' Buckra Imports More than Black Bodies, Sugar, and Brer Rabbit Tales; Notorious Witch of Salem; Enigmatic Voodoo Queen; Ritualizing Rememory and Literary Archaeologies; Chapter 2: From Farce to Folk Hero, or a Twentieth-Century Revival of the Conjure Woman; All Aunt Peggy's Children; Black Feminist Critical Representation; Blessed and in Good Favor: Origins of Power
• A Woman's Place: Subverting the NormChapter 3: Troubling the Water: Conjure and Christ; Genealogy; Double Consciousness and the Recreation of God; Divinity and the Black Body; A Question of Africana Spiritual Ethics; Chapter 4: Of Blues Narratives and Conjure Magic: A Symbiotic Dialectic; Blues as a Cultural Valve; ""[Conjure] Women Don't Wear No Blues""; Books, Blues, and Hoodoo: Toward a Triptych Literary Trope; Chapter 5: Coda: ""Literature and Hoodoo . . . Tools for Shaping the Soul""; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Works Cited; Index
• 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.
• English