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The Conjure Woman

Charles W. Chesnutt, 1899

Of One Blood

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, 1903

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903

The Marrow of Tradition

Charles W. Chesnutt, 1901

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

James Weldon Johnson, 1912

American Civil War

1861-1865

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Wilmington Massacre

1898

Plessy v. Ferguson

1892-1896

Civil Rights Act

1875

frame narrative

a literary technique where an introductory main narrative sets the stage for one or more secondary, embedded stories, used in The Conjure Woman

tragicomedy

a literary and dramatic genre that blends tragic and comic elements, resulting in a blended, often bittersweet, emotional experience

serialization

the publication of a single, larger narrative in smaller, sequential installments—known as parts, fascicles, or chapters—released over time rather than all at once, method by which Of One Blood was published

speculative fiction

a term that encompasses such non-realist genres as science fiction and fantasy, genre term can be applied to Of One Blood

afrofuturism

Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century technoculture

Ethiopianism

a 19th-century, African-led religious and political movement advocating for independence, racial equality, and "Africa for the Africans

double-consciousness

describes the psychological challenge African Americans face in navigating a white-dominated society. It is a "two-ness"—being both American and Black—viewing oneself through the judgmental eyes of a racist society, leading to internal conflict, fragmented identity, and a constant need to reconcile these conflicting identities, coined by Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk