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The Conjure Woman (new edition) (Paperback)
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The Conjure Woman (new edition) (Paperback)
Series: Foundations of Black Science Fiction
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Loot Price R178
Discovery Miles 1 780
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Featuring a new introduction for this new edition, The Conjure
Woman is probably Chesnutt's most powerful work, a collection of
stories set in post-war North Carolina. The main character is Uncle
Julius, a former slave, who entertains a white couple from the
North with fantastic tales of antebellum plantation life. Julius
tells of supernatural phenomenon, hauntings, transfiguration, and
conjuring, which were typical of Southern African-American folk
tales at the time. Uncle Julius tells the stories in a way that
speaks beyond his immediate audience, offering stories of slavery
and inequality that are, to the enlightened reader, obviously
wrong. The tales are fabulistic, like those of Uncle Remus or
Aesop, with carefully crafted allegories on the psychological and
social effects of slavery and racial injustice. FLAME TREE 451:
From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and
science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves
and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and
escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and
modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. The
Foundations titles also explore the roots of modern fiction and
brings together neglected works which deserve a wider readership as
part of a series of classic, essential books.
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