The Conjure Woman: Stories of Folklore and Memory from the American South

A collection of interconnected stories examining folklore, memory, and social conditions in the postbellum American South. In The Conjure Woman, Charles Waddell Chesnutt presents a series of tales framed through storytelling encounters, in which accounts of conjure and transformation intersect with the realities of plantation life and its aftermath.

The narratives unfold through a layered structure, combining regional voice with controlled literary form. Chesnutt's method allows the surface ...