Love conjure/blues / by Sharon Bridgeforth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bridgforth, Sharon., Author.

Contributor:

RedBone Press., Publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Performance art.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 89 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : RedBone Press, c2004.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Love conjure/blues is performance literature/a novel that is constructed for breath. Love conjure/blues places the fiction-form inside a traditional Black American voice/inviting dramatic interpretation and movement within the fit of a highly literary text-filled with folktales poetry haints prophecy song and oral history. Love conjure/blues considers a range of possibilities of gender expression and sexuality within a southern/rural/ Black working class context that examines the blues as a way of life/as ritual—in concert with ancient practices and new creations. The past the present the future the living and the dead co-exist together/at the same time in a weave of dreams/prayers/love/spirit expressed.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed October 28, 2014).

OCLC:

898083147