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- Book Title
- The Conjure Stories: A Norton Critical Edition
- Publication Date
- 2011-12-01
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9780393927801
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Conjure Stories : Norton Critical Edition
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Subject
- American / African American
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Series
- Norton Critical Editions Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 11.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
ISBN-10
0393927806
ISBN-13
9780393927801
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109145676
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Publication Name
Conjure Stories : Norton Critical Edition
Language
English
Subject
American / African American
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
Norton Critical Editions Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2011-034192
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
0
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813/.4
Table Of Content
Introduction A Note on the Texts THE TEXTS OF THE CONJURE STORIES The Goophered Grapevine Po' Sandy The Conjurer's Revenge Dave's Neckliss A Deep Sleeper Lonesome Ben The Dumb Witness A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt Mars Jeems's Nightmare Sis' Becky's Pickaninny Tobe's Tribulations Hot-Foot Hannibal The Marked Tree CONTEXTS Sarah Ingle * The Terrain of Chesnutt's Conjure Tales Charles W. Chesnutt * From His Journal, Spring 1880 [Why could not a colored man . . . write a far better book about the South?] [I think I must write a book] William Wells Brown * [Voudooism in Missouri] Joel Chandler Harris * The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox Ovid * The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel Charles W. Chesnutt * Letters to Albion W. Tourgée and George Washington Cable To Tourgée, Sept. 26, 1889 To Cable, March 29, 1890 To Cable, June 13, 1890 Paul Laurence Dunbar * The Deserted Plantation Charles W. Chesnutt * Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South The Free Colored People of North Carolina Adaptation of "The Dumb Witness" The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem CRITICISM EARLY CRITICISM Critical Notices of The Conjure Woman William Dean Howells * Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories Benjamin Brawley * [Fiction with a Firm Sense of Art] Helen M. Chesnutt * Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page MODERN CRITICISM Robert Hemenway * [Black Magic, Audience, and Belief] William L. Andrews * [A Critique of the Plantation Legend] Robert B. Stepto * [The Cycle of the First Four Stories] John Edgar Wideman * [Julius's Ex-Slave Narrative] Werner Sollors * [Reason, Property, and Modern Metamorphoses] Houston A. Baker Jr. * [The Sound of the Conjure Stories] Eric J. Sundquist * [Chesnutt's Revision of Uncle Remus] Richard H. Brodhead * [Chesnutt's Negotiation with the Dominant Literary Culture] Candace J. Waid * Conjuring the Conjugal: Chesnutt's Scenes from a Marriage Glenda Carpio * [Black Humor in the Conjure Stories] Charles W. Chesnutt: A Chronology Selected Bibliography
Edition Description
Critical
Synopsis
This Norton Critical Edition of The Conjure Stories arranges the tales chronologically by composition date, allowing readers to discern how Chesnutt experimented with plots and characters and with the idea of the conjure story over time. With one exception, the text of each tale is that of the original publication. (The text of "The Dumb Witness" was established from two typescripts held at the archives of Fisk University.) The stories are accompanied by a thorough and thought-provoking introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, and illustrative materials. "Contexts" presents a wealth of materials chosen by the editors to enrich the reader's understanding of these canonical stories, including a map of the landscape of the conjure tales, Chesnutt's journal entry as he began writing fiction of the South, as well as writings by Chesnutt, William Wells Brown, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others, on the stories' central motifs--folklore, superstition, voodoo, race, and social identity in the South following the Civil War. "Criticism" is divided into two parts. "Early Criticism" collects critical notices for The Conjure Woman that suggest the volume's initial reception, assessments by William Dean Howells and Benjamin Brawley, and a biographical excerpt by the author's daughter, Helen Chesnutt. "Modern Criticism" demonstrates rich and enduring interest in The Conjure Stories with ten important essays by Robert Hemenway, William L. Andrews, Robert B. Stepto, John Edgar Wideman, Werner Sollors, Houston A. Baker, Eric J. Sundquist, Richard H. Brodhead, Candace J. Waid, and Glenda Carpio. A Chronology of Chesnutt's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included., "Contexts" presents a wealth of materials chosen by the editors to enrich the reader's understanding of these canonical stories, including a map of the landscape of the conjure tales, Chesnutt's journal entry as he began writing fiction of the South, as well as writings by Chesnutt, William Wells Brown, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others, on the stories' central motifs--folklore, superstition, voodoo, race, and social identity in the South following the Civil War. "Criticism" is divided into two parts. "Early Criticism" collects critical notices for The Conjure Woman that suggest the volume's initial reception, assessments by William Dean Howells and Benjamin Brawley, and a biographical excerpt by the author's daughter, Helen Chesnutt. "Modern Criticism" demonstrates rich and enduring interest in The Conjure Stories with ten important essays by Robert Hemenway, William L. Andrews, Robert B. Stepto, John Edgar Wideman, Werner Sollors, Houston A. Baker, Eric J. Sundquist, Richard H. Brodhead, Candace J. Waid, and Glenda Carpio. A Chronology of Chesnutt's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
LC Classification Number
PS1292.C6
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