Over the course of his career Romare Bearden (1911-88) created at least a dozen works on the subject of the “conjure woman.” She emerges in many of these pictures as specterlike, hovering among ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This book is a first edition, first printing of “The Conjure Woman," a collection of seven short stories, all set in "Patesville," North Carolina ...

Afia Atakora's debut novel "Conjure Women" opens with a sonorous unyielding cry from a bad omen: the piercing sound comes from a pale-skinned baby, born in a caul with unnaturally black eyes and a ...

Atakora’s haunting, promising debut explores the legacy of a Southern plantation in the years leading up to and following the Civil War. Miss May Belle, a “conjure woman” known for casting spells to ...

Conjure Women. By Afia Atakora. Random House; 416 pages; $27. Fourth Estate; £14.99. RUE KNEW she was a liar. When she was enslaved, and then during her first years of freedom, she often said, falsely ...