id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_272bvvxxhjax3eg2ktqi2fw4wy James Mellis Continuing Conjure: African-Based Spiritual Traditions in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing 2019 14 .pdf application/pdf 10428 592 62 Continuing Conjure: African-Based Spiritual Traditions in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing Unburied, Sing both won the National Book Award for fiction, the first time that two African-American authors using African-based spiritual practices, particularly Voodoo, hoodoo, conjure and rootwork, Whitehead and Ward enter and engage in a tradition of African American protest literature based on National Book Award for Fiction, Whitehead and Ward join the ranks of notable African-American 1 Ward previously won the National Book Award for her 2011 novel Salvage the Bones, making her the first African-American 2 "African-based spiritual traditions" refer to the practices of Voodoo, conjure, rootwork and hoodoo as practiced in the In Yvonne Chireau's Black Magic: Religion and the African-American Conjuring Tradition, she notes, Leonie, Pop's African-based spiritual traditions are not mere metaphors, but a way to protect, resist Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition. ./cache/work_272bvvxxhjax3eg2ktqi2fw4wy.pdf ./txt/work_272bvvxxhjax3eg2ktqi2fw4wy.txt