LEADER 04479nam 22006613u 450 001 9910828781203321 005 20230126213226.0 010 $a0-8223-7779-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822377795 035 $a(CKB)3710000000204217 035 $a(EBL)3007914 035 $a(OCoLC)621201306 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001084072 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12419189 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001084072 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11036029 035 $a(PQKB)11516993 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007914 035 $a(DE-B1597)553438 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822377795 035 $a(OCoLC)1148101384 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000204217 100 $a20160718d2012|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales$b[electronic resource] 210 $aDurham $cDuke University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8223-1378-2 327 $aContents; 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; Related Tales; Dave's Neckliss; A Deep Sleeper; Lonesome Ben; The Dumb Witness; A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken; Tobe's Tribulations; The Marked Tree 330 $aThe 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 created, how an African American author negotiated with the tastes of the dominant literary culture of the late nineteenth century, and how that culture both promoted and delimited his work.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. 606 $aAfrican Americans -- Fiction 606 $aSouthern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction 606 $aAfrican Americans$vFiction 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aAmerican Literature$2HILCC 615 4$aAfrican Americans -- Fiction. 615 4$aSouthern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. 615 0$aAfrican Americans 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aAmerican Literature 676 $a813/.4 700 $aChesnutt$b Charles W$g(Charles Waddell),$f1858-1932.$0684171 701 $aBrodhead$b Richard H$0595379 701 $aBroadhead$b Richard H$01692547 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828781203321 996 $aThe Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales$94069711 997 $aUNINA