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- Title
Foreign Before "The Foreigner": Caribbean Fetishes, Zombi, and Jewett's Conjure Aesthetics.
- Authors
Kuiken, Vesna
- 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 colonial epistemologies, derived from Afro-Caribbean healing practices of Obeah and Quimbois traditions, fashion political, economic, medical and aesthetic transactions between Europe, Africa and the Americas.
- Subjects
COUNTRY of the Pointed Firs, The (Book : Jewett); JEWETT, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909; OBEAH (Religion)
- Publication
Arizona Quarterly, 2018, Vol 74, Issue 4, p115
- ISSN
0004-1610
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/arq.2018.0024