Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

Name: Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
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ISBN: 9780822313878

ISBN-10: 0822313871

ISBN-13: 9780822313878

Edition: 1993

Authors: Charles W. Chesnutt, Richard H. Brodhead, Richard H. Brodhead

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The stories in "The Conjure Woman" were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance. Lesser known, though, is that the "The Conjure Woman," as first published by Houghton Mifflin, was not wholly Chesnutt's creation but a work shaped and selected by his editors. This edition reassembles for the first time all of Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre, the entire imaginative feat of which the published "Conjure Woman" forms a part. It allows the reader to see how the original volume was…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/19/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction


Chronology of Composition


A Note on the Text


Selected Bibliography


The Conjure Woman


The Goophered Grapevine


Po' Sandy


Mars Jeems's Nightmare


The Conjurer's Revenge


Sis' Becky's Pickaninny


The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt


Hot-Foot Hannibal


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A Deep Sleeper


Lonesome Ben


The Dumb Witness


A Victim of Heredity


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Tobe's Tribulations


The Marked Tree