Conjuring Moments in African American Literature [electronic resource] : Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo /
Martin, Kameelah L.author.
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.
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Cover; Conjuring Moments in African American Literature; Contents; Copyright Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: ""Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live"": Women and Spirit Work; Colonial Continuities, or Ol' Buckra Imports More than Black Bodies, Sugar, and Brer Rabbit Tales; Notorious Witch of Salem; Enigmatic Voodoo Queen; Ritualizing Rememory and Literary Archaeologies; Chapter 2: From Farce to Folk Hero, or a Twentieth-Century Revival of the Conjure Woman; All Aunt Peggy's Children; Black Feminist Critical Representation; Blessed and in Good Favor: Origins of Power
A Woman's Place: Subverting the NormChapter 3: Troubling the Water: Conjure and Christ; Genealogy; Double Consciousness and the Recreation of God; Divinity and the Black Body; A Question of Africana Spiritual Ethics; Chapter 4: Of Blues Narratives and Conjure Magic: A Symbiotic Dialectic; Blues as a Cultural Valve; ""[Conjure] Women Don't Wear No Blues""; Books, Blues, and Hoodoo: Toward a Triptych Literary Trope; Chapter 5: Coda: ""Literature and Hoodoo . . . Tools for Shaping the Soul""; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
America-Literatures.
Literature   .
African literature.
African Languages.
Ethnology-Africa.
Religion.
North American Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
African Literature.
African Languages.
African Culture.
Religious Studies, general.