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Conjuring Moments in African American Literature

Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
By:K. Samuel; Kameelah L. Martin
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137270474
eText ISBN:9781137336811
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.