San Antonio College Library

The stories in "The Conjure Woman" were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success. Since their initial publication in 1899 they have come to be seen as some of the most remarkable works of African American literature from the Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance. Less well known though, is that "The Conjure Woman" was not wholly Chesnutt's creation but a work shaped and selected by his editors.This edition reassembles for the first...