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The Conjure Woman
Hardcover
Series: Black Narratives
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $12.99
ISBN13: 9781513220406
Publisher: Mint Editions
Published: Dec 8 2020
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Conjure Woman (1899) is a collection of stories by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. The Goophered Grapevine, the collection's opening story, was originally published in The Atlantic in 1887, making Chesnutt the first African American to have a story published in the magazine. The Conjure Woman is now considered a masterpiece of African American fiction for its use of folklore and exploration of racist stereotypes of Black Americans, especially those living in the South.
In The Goophered Grapevine, an old ex-slave named Julius McAdoo-a coachman hired by a white Northerner named John-warns his employer about the land he has decided to purchase. He tells him the story of the vineyard's previous owner, who hired a woman named Aunt Peggy to put a curse on his famous scuppernong grapes in order to stop his slaves from eating them. Each story in The Conjure Woman follows a similar formula, beginning with a narrative situation involving John and his wife, Annie, before leading to a story from Uncle Julius. Po' Sandy, one of Chesnutt's most acclaimed tales-and a loose adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses-opens with John deciding to build a new kitchen for his wife. Uncle Julius drives him to the saw mill, where, while watching the saw cut through a log, he is reminded of the story of Sandy, a local man who was turned into a tree by a conjurer in order to escape slavery. The Conjure Woman is a powerful collection of folk takes and stories exploring themes of race, identity, and class in the nineteenth century South.
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