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The Universal Panopticon: Julius as an Authoritative Figure in Charles Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales"
The Universal Panopticon: Julius as an Authoritative Figure in Charles Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales"

By Brittany Collins 

Charles Chesnutt's collection of stories entitled The Conjure Woman, which involve the telling of past plantation stories by an elderly former slave named Julius McAdoo to a curious white couple named John and Annie, were originally published in 1899.

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