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.