{"product_id":"the-conjure-stories-9780393927801","title":"The Conjure Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourteen conjure tales by one of America's most influential African American fiction writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  \u003cp\u003eA Note on the Texts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE TEXTS OF \u003ci\u003eTHE CONJURE STORIES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Goophered Grapevine\u003cbr\u003e Po' Sandy\u003cbr\u003e The Conjurer's Revenge\u003cbr\u003e Dave's Neckliss\u003cbr\u003e A Deep Sleeper\u003cbr\u003e Lonesome Ben\u003cbr\u003e The Dumb Witness\u003cbr\u003e A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken\u003cbr\u003e The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt\u003cbr\u003e Mars Jeems's Nightmare\u003cbr\u003e Sis' Becky's Pickaninny\u003cbr\u003e Tobe's Tribulations\u003cbr\u003e Hot-Foot Hannibal\u003cbr\u003e The Marked Tree\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCONTEXTS\u003c\/p\u003e Sarah Ingle • The Terrain of Chesnutt's Conjure Tales\u003cbr\u003e Charles W. Chesnutt • From His Journal, Spring 1880\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e[Why could not a colored man . . . write a far better book about the South?]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e[I think I must write a book]\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e William Wells Brown • [Voudooism in Missouri]\u003cbr\u003e Joel Chandler Harris • The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox\u003cbr\u003e Ovid • The Transformation of Daphne into a Laurel\u003cbr\u003e Charles W. Chesnutt • Letters to Albion W. Tourgée and George Washington Cable\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Tourgée, Sept. 26, 1889\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Cable, March 29, 1890\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Cable, June 13, 1890\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e Paul Laurence Dunbar • The Deserted Plantation\u003cbr\u003e Charles W. Chesnutt • Superstitions and Folk-lore of the South\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Free Colored People of North Carolina\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdaptation of \"The Dumb Witness\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePost-Bellum-Pre-Harlem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e CRITICISM  \u003cp\u003eEARLY CRITICISM\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Notices of \u003ci\u003eThe Conjure Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Dean Howells • Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories\u003cbr\u003e Benjamin Brawley • [Fiction with a Firm Sense of Art]\u003cbr\u003e Helen M. Chesnutt • Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMODERN CRITICISM\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRobert Hemenway • [Black Magic, Audience, and Belief]\u003cbr\u003e William L. Andrews • [A Critique of the Plantation Legend]\u003cbr\u003e Robert B. Stepto • [The Cycle of the First Four Stories]\u003cbr\u003e John Edgar Wideman • [Julius's Ex-Slave Narrative]\u003cbr\u003e Werner Sollors • [Reason, Property, and Modern Metamorphoses]\u003cbr\u003e Houston A. Baker Jr. • [The Sound of the Conjure Stories]\u003cbr\u003e Eric J. Sundquist • [Chesnutt's Revision of Uncle Remus]\u003cbr\u003e Richard H. Brodhead • [Chesnutt's Negotiation with the Dominant Literary Culture]\u003cbr\u003e Candace J. Waid • Conjuring the Conjugal: Chesnutt's Scenes from a Marriage\u003cbr\u003e Glenda Carpio • [Black Humor in the Conjure Stories]\u003cbr\u003e Charles W. Chesnutt: A Chronology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402032161111,"sku":"9780393927801","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393927801.jpg?v=1730479199","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-conjure-stories-9780393927801","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}