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

by K. Samuel (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.

Author Biography

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