Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo

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.

Author: K. Samuel
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/28/2012
Pages: 189
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9781349444342

About the Author
Kameelah L. Martin is a Vistiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Houston.