The conjure woman, and other conjure tales / by Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited and with an introduction by Richard H. Brodhead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932.

Contributor:

Brodhead, Richard H., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Southern States--Fiction.

African Americans.

Southern States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

207 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, [1993]

Summary:

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 also allows the reader to see how the published 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0822313782

0822313871

OCLC:

27976589