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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.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 189 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-183) and index.

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:

"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.

ISBN:

1137270470 (hardback)
9781137270474 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)798615495

LCCN:

2012031263

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)