The Conjure Woman

Author : Afia Atakora
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525511490
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conjure Women written by Afia Atakora and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the heart of this dazzling first novel WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • NPR • Parade • Book Riot • PopMatters “Lush, irresistible . . . It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. I was transported.”—Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and Away Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife; and their master’s daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom. Magnificently written, brilliantly researched, richly imagined, Conjure Women moves back and forth in time to tell the haunting story of Rue, Varina, and May Belle, their passions and friendships, and the lengths they will go to save themselves and those they love. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “[A] haunting, promising debut . . . Through complex characters and bewitching prose, Atakora offers a stirring portrait of the power conferred between the enslaved women. This powerful tale of moral ambiguity amid inarguable injustice stands with Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An engrossing debut . . . Atakora structures a plot with plenty of satisfying twists. Life in the immediate aftermath of slavery is powerfully rendered in this impressive first novel.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conjure Woman written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1900 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles W. Chestnutt
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513274171
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conjure Woman written by Charles W. Chestnutt and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Charles W. Chesnutt
Publisher : Digireads.Com
ISBN 13 : 9781420942675
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales written by Charles W. Chesnutt and published by Digireads.Com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addressed the complex issues of racial and social identity at the turn of the century. Chesnutt's early works explored political issues somewhat indirectly, with the intention of changing the attitudes of Caucasians slowly and carefully. His characters deal with difficult issues of miscegenation, illegitimacy, racial identity and social place. The stories in "The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales" were Chesnutt's first great literary success. This collection of thirteen short stories is told by a former slave named Uncle Julius to a white couple who have recently moved to the South. Uncle Julius's tales feature supernatural elements such as haunting, transfiguration, and conjuring that were typical of southern folk tales. In this collection, "Po' Sandy" recounts how a woman changed her lover into a tree to try and protect him. Another story, "Sis' Becky's Pickaninny," tells the tragic story of a slave woman who is parted from her baby when the plantation owner sells her for a race horse.

Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313878
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.

Author : Fritz Leiber
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667681761
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conjure Wife written by Fritz Leiber and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tansy Saylor is the wife of an up-and-coming young sociology professor at a small, conservative American college. She is also a witch. Her husband, Norman, discovers this one day while rummaging through her dressing table: he finds vials of graveyard dirt, packets of hair and fingernail clippings from their acquaintances, and other evidence of her witchcraft. He confronts Tansy, and manages to convince her that her faith in magic is a result of superstition and neurosis. Tansy burns her charms; and Norman's luck immediately goes sour. He realizes that he had been protected, up till now, by Tansy's charms, and that as a result of his meddling, they are both now powerless to counteract the spells and charms of the other witches all around them.

Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Po' Sandy written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442901500
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conjure Woman (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1969 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : K. Samuel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137336811
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conjuring Moments in African American Literature written by K. Samuel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Fritz Leiber
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312869724
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Ladies written by Fritz Leiber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conjure wife, Norman Saylor learns that his wife is a sorceress. In Our Lady of Darkness, horror writer Franz Westen searches for the paranormal in San Francisco.