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Author Martin, Kameelah L., 1978-

Title Conjuring moments in African American literature : women, spirit work, and other such hoodoo / Kameelah L. Martin
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 189 pages)
Contents 'Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live': Women and Spirit Work -- From Farce to Folk Hero; or a Twentieth-Century Revival of the Conjure Woman -- Troubling the Water: Conjure and Christ -- Of Blues Narratives and Conjure Magic: A Symbiotic Dialectic -- Coda: "Literature and Hoodoo ... Tools for Shaping the Soul."
Summary 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
"This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. The conjure woman is arguably one of the most adept agents of mobility, resistance, and self-determination in the realm of African American womanhood and 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."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-183) and index
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Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature and folklore -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Magicians in literature.
African American women in literature.
African American aesthetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
African American aesthetics
African American women in literature
American fiction
American fiction -- African American authors
Literature and folklore
Magicians in literature
Roman
Schwarze
Heilerin Motiv
Magie Motiv
Spiritualität Motiv
Roman américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Roman américain -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature et folklore -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle.
Magiciens et sorciers -- Dans la littérature.
Noires américaines -- Dans la littérature.
United States
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137336811
1137336811
9781349444342
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