Granny midwives and Black women writers : double-dutched readings / Valerie Lee

Object Details

Contents

Sistah Conjurer: Text and context -- Western science and folk medicine: White men's forceps and Black women's forces -- Literary recovery of the granny: The body, the mind, the material -- God and the grannies: Testifying theory -- Women who work magic: Literary and cultural icons--Song of Solomon -- Conjure discourse in conjuring communities: Mama Day and fieldwork in paradise

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

1996

20th century

Author

Lee, Valerie 1950-

Type

Books

Physical description

xii, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Place

United States

Topic

American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism

American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism

Women and literature--History

African American women--Intellectual life

African American midwives in literature

African American women in literature

African American midwives--History

African Americans in literature

Record ID

siris_sil_802117

Usage

CC0