The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales [Paperback] [Oct 19, 1993] Chesnutt, Charles W. and Brodhead, Richard H.
Chesnutt, Charles W.; Brodhead, Richard H. [Editor]
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press Books, 1993
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Durham, NC; Duke University Press; 1993; Soft Cover Uncorrected Page Proofs in blue wraps. 207 pages. Edited and With Introduction by Richard H. Brodhead.; One vague corner fold to cover otherwise like new. Shelf C, blue.
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- The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales [Paperback] [Oct 19, 1993] Chesnutt, Charles W. and Brodhead, Richard H.
- Author
- Chesnutt, Charles W.; Brodhead, Richard H. [Editor]
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822313871
- ISBN 13
- 9780822313878
In the tradition of Uncle Remus, the conjure tale listens in on a poor black southerner, speaking strong dialect, as he recounts a local incident to a transplanted northerner for the northerner's enlightenment and edification. But in Chesnutt's hands the tradition is transformed. No longer a reactionary flight of nostalgia for the antebellum South, the stories in this book celebrate and at the same time question the folk culture they so pungently portray, and ultimately convey the pleasures and anxieties of a world in transition. Written in the late nineteenth century, a time of enormous growth and change for a country only recently reunited in peace, these stories act as the uneasy meeting ground for the culture of northern capitalism, professionalism, and Christianity and the underdeveloped southern economy, a kind of colonial Third World whose power is manifest in life charms, magic spells, and ha'nts, all embodied by the ruling figure of the conjure woman.
Humorous, heart-breaking, lyrical, and wise, these stories make clear why the fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt has continued to captivate audiences for a century.
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About the Author
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858- 1932) is the author of The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories (1899), The House Behind the Cedars (1900), The Marrow of Tradition (1901), and Colonel's Dream (1905).
Richard H. Brodhead, Professor of English at Yale University, is the author of numerous books about nineteenth-century American Literature, including Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America.
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