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The Conjure Woman
Charles W. Chesnutt
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These seven short stories use a frame narrator, John, a white carpetbagger who has moved south to protect his wife Annie's failing health and to begin cultivating a grape vineyard. Enamored by remnants of the plantation world, John portrays the South in largely idealistic terms.
These seven short stories use a frame narrator, John, a white carpetbagger who has moved south to protect his wife Annie's failing health and to begin cultivating a grape vineyard. Enamored by remnants of the plantation world, John portrays the South in largely idealistic terms.
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"No, Julius," I rejoined decidedly, "it is impossible. I gave him more than a fair trial, and he simply won't do."
When my wife and I set out for our drive in the cool of the evening,—afternoon is "evening" in Southern parlance,—one of the servants put into the rock-away two large earthenware jugs. Our drive was to be down through the swamp to the mineral spring at the foot of the sand-hills beyond. The water of this spring was strongly impregnated with sulphur and iron, and, while not particularly agreeable of smell or taste, was used by us, in moderation, for sanitary reasons.
When we reached the spring, we found a man engaged in cleaning it out. In answer to an inquiry he said that if we would wait five or ten minutes, his task would be finished and the spring in such condition that we could fill our jugs. We might have driven on, and come back by w. . . Read More
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I loved this book. This is a collection of short stories that fall under one overlaying narrative that read like post-civil war twilight zone episodes. The main narrator is a white man from the north, who moves south for his wives health. While adjusting to his new life on a vineyard he encounters a
I love to get into some post-Emancipation African American literature because while Chesnutt is careful about how he represents slavery to his white audience, he cleverly makes his distrust and dislike of white institutions of the time known (especially for the modern reader).
3.5⭐️
Sadly was harder to read for me because of the heavy southern accent. But the content is great and should be read at school instead of continually reading the same white classics.
THE CONJURE WOMAN by Charles Chestnutt is a classic bunch of tales, written in the late 1880s, which I'd not heard about until recently. It's a wonderful collection of tales narrated by John, a northern "carpetbagger" who buys a vineyard in North Carolina during Reconstruction.
John, however, is not
Goophered
Charles Chesnutt (1858 -- 1932) was a lawyer, businessman, and civil rights activist in addition to his chosen work and dream of becoming a successful early African American writer. His first published collection of stories, "The Conjure Woman" (1899) remains his best-known work. The seven
I found it a fascinating & thought-provoking collection of stories (one author, all stories have something to do with "conjuring" or "hoodoo" as it related to the post-Civil War era in rural NC).
Some of the stories were originally bundled & sold as a book, but this edition has stories the author wro
I picked this up for $1, and since it contains early tales of hoodoo, I wanted to see what I could learn from it. The stories are about a brilliant man named Julius who used his stories to aid others, and himself, in working through their cares. I adored this book and found it full of beauty. I wish
On the surface, this book seems to be a series of tales that hark back to the days of plantations and slavery, all connected by The Conjure Woman, who, for a small payment, helps ease the trials and hardships of the slaves by her "goopherin." The book begins when a man, John, and his wife, Annie, mo