Returning Voices
The Conjure Woman
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA collection of tales told by a formerly enslaved man to a Northern couple who have bought his old plantation, tales that read as folk charm on the surface and as sharp historical testimony underneath it. Chesnutt used the frame of a harmless old storyteller to smuggle in accounts his white audience would not have tolerated told plainly. The trick, once you notice it, changes every story that follows.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 45 min
- Where to find it
- On the Returning Voices shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #11666. In the public domain in the United States.