Conjuring Moments in African American Literature Women, Spirit Work,
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Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
10.1057/9781137336811 - Conjuring Moments in African American Literature, Kameelah L. Martin
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Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo
Kameelah L. Martin
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Conjuring Moments in African American Literature
conjuring moments in african american literature Copyright © Kameelah L. Martin, 2012. All rights reserved.
Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-1-137-27047-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Martin, Kameelah L., 1978Conjuring moments in African American literature : women, spirit work, and other such hoodoo / Kameelah L. Martin. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-137-27047-4 (hardback) 1. American fiction—African American authors—History and criticism. 2. American fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 3. Literature and folklore—United States—History—20th century. 4. Magicians in literature. 5. African American women in literature. 6. African American aesthetics. I. Title. PS374.N4M365 2013 810.9'896073—dc23 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: January 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Copyright Acknowledgments
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 “Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live”: Women and Spirit Work
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2 From Farce to Folk Hero, or a Twentieth-Century Revival of the Conjure Woman
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3 Troubling the Water: Conjure and Christ
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4 Of Blues Narratives and Conjure Magic: A Symbiotic Dialectic
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5 Coda: “Literature and Hoodoo . . . Tools for Shaping the Soul”
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Notes 165 Works Cited
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Index 185
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