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Conjuring moments in African American literaturewomen, spirit work, and other such hoodoo /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Conjuring moments in African American literatureKameelah L. Martin.
Reminder of title:	women, spirit work, and other such hoodoo /
Author:	Martin, Kameelah L.,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 189 p.)
Subject:	American fictionAfrican American authors
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9781137336811 (electronic bk.)

Conjuring moments in African American literaturewomen, spirit work, and other such hoodoo /
Martin, Kameelah L.,1978-

Conjuring moments in African American literaturewomen, spirit work, and other such hoodoo /[electronic resource] :Kameelah L. Martin. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource (viii, 189 p.)

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

'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"..

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.

ISBN: 9781137336811 (electronic bk.)

Source: 602175Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

222183
American fiction
--African American authorsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS374.N4 / M365 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/896073

Conjuring moments in African American literaturewomen, spirit work, and other such hoodoo /
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