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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 fl

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Author

Charles W. Chesnutt

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822377795

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.86 / 5 (473 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14