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"The Conjure Woman"

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  • Source Text: Anonymous, ""The Conjure Woman"," The St. Paul Dispatch (April 29, 1899): 5.

"The Conjure Woman"

By Charles N. Chestnutt. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., $1.25. St. Paul Book & Stationary Co.

"The Conjure Woman" is a book composed of six well written and very delightful stories in negro dialect. There has been much written, both for and against the use of dialect in story writing. Yet one feels, after reading these little stories of Mr. Chestnutt's, that in no other way could the local color of the country he writes about be pictured. You are not only listening to an old negro reciting his stories of folk being "conjured,"

  • Cite (Chicago style): Anonymous, ""The Conjure Woman"," The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive, Gen. Ed. Stephanie P. Browner, Matt Cohen, and Kenneth M. Price, accessed April 19, 2024. https://chesnuttarchive.org/item/ccda.rev00013.
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