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The Conjure Woman - Couverture souple

Chestnutt, Charles Waddell

 
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Synopsis

The Conjure Woman is the title of an 1899 collection of seven stories by Charles W. Chesnutt, an important African American writer from the post-Civil War South; it was his first book. The stories deal with the racial issues facing the South after the war, often through the comments of the character of Uncle Julius McAdoo, a freed slave who tells these stories to a white couple from the North, John and Annie.

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À propos de l'auteur

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an American author, essayist, and political activist. His fiction addresses issues of race, identity, and social structure in the United States, often drawing on regional settings and narrative framing. He is regarded as an important early figure in African American literature.

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