Conjure Woman
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by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "Patesville" (Fayetteville), North Carolina. While drawing from local color traditions and relying on dialect, Chesnutt's tales of conjuring, a form of magic rooted in African hoodoo, refused to romanticize slave life or the "Old South." Though necessarily informed by Joel Chandler Harris's popular Uncle Remus stories and Thomas Nelson Page's plantation fiction, The Conjure Woman consciously moved away from these models, instead offering an almost biting examinat...
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| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Author | Charles Waddell Chesnutt |
| Duration | 3:39:17 |
| Language | Chinese |
| Source | Librivox.org |
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