The Lives of a Book: The Conjure Woman through the Ages
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In 1899 Houghton Mifflin published African-American writer Charles Waddell Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman, which would ultimately become the most famous of his books. Looking at the context and the paratext of re-editions of this collection of stories between1899 and 2002, this essay endeavours to assess the extent to which these re-editions endowed the text with new possibilities for interpretation, and with a new status. As the text was ultimately canonised, the story of these editions also reflects the history, and the historiography, of African-American literature in the twentieth century.
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