Conjuring Moments in African American Literature

Kameelah L. Martin is a Vistiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Houston.

• 1. 'Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live': Women and Spirit Work 2. From Farce to Folk Hero; or a 20th Century Revival of the Conjure Woman 3. Troubling the Water: Conjure and Christ 4. Of Blues Narratives and Conjure Magic: A Symbiotic Dialectic

“Martin’s work remedies a gap in academic scholarship that has overlooked the critical role that the conjurer woman has played in literature, and this work seems to elevate her to the status of cultural icon.” (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)