![]() ![]() I had a double-take when I saw it was written pre-2020 it has a prophetic quality in that respect. Infectious illness is a central theme of the book, and this deepens the haunting atmosphere. ![]() Conjure Women is set in a remote and isolated Southern plantation that brims with a dark, gothic mood. Conjure Women by Afia AtakoraĪtakora offers a fascinating closeup on the worlds of midwifery and conjure before and after Emancipation. ![]() Here are seven other novels about Black folks in the 1800s, and a few words about the unique and astounding ways the authors bring their stories to life. In my own novel, In the Upper Country, I sought to imbue freshness in the genre through a variety of means, for example, by attending to the neglected history of Black and Indigenous relations of the period. How to tell a story about a Black 19 th-century experience without resorting to uninspired plot choices, tired dialogue, and stereotypical characters? It is easy, as a writer of fiction, to be too obvious when navigating such a fraught topic. ![]() Slavery (and its afterlife) is full of narrative potential: the enslavement of one person by another is perhaps the most fundamental promise of conflict imaginable. ![]()
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