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02299aam a2200397 a 4500 001 91F5D0D6B6DB11E2AF0A76A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130507010107 008 120822s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012031263 020 $a 1137270470 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137270474 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)798615495 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d CDX $d BWX $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374.N4 $b M365 2013 100 1 $a Martin, Kameelah L., $d 1978- 245 10 $a Conjuring moments in African American literature : $b women, spirit work, and other such hoodoo / $c Kameelah L. Martin. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2013. 300 $a viii, 189 p. ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-183) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and folklore $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Magicians in literature. 650 0 $a African American women in literature. 650 0 $a African American aesthetics. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180103030559.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826064410.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20140522012309.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91F5D0D6B6DB11E2AF0A76A3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search