Foreign Before "The Foreigner": Caribbean Fetishes, Zombi, and Jewett's Conjure Aesthetics

@article{Kuiken2018ForeignB,
  title={Foreign Before "The Foreigner": Caribbean Fetishes, Zombi, and Jewett's Conjure Aesthetics},
  author={Vesna Kuiken},
  journal={Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory},
  year={2018},
  volume={74},
  pages={115 - 144},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:165241017}
}
  • Vesna Kuiken
  • Published 4 December 2018
  • History, Sociology
  • Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory
Abstract:This essay claims that the analeptic inclusion of Sarah Orne Jewett's short story "The Foreigner" (1899) into her novel TheCountry of the Pointed Firs (1896)places a conjure woman from Martinique and her healing practices at the heart of Country's white village in Maine. By thus endowing the village's healer with conjure powers, "The Foreigner" dramatically re-contextualizes the communal world of Jewett's Country, and comes to testify to the complex trans-American routes by which… 
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