Sentence examples for conjure man from inspiring English sources

In 1932 Fisher brought out The Conjure Man Dies, often referred to as the first African American detective novel.

Bynum, the conjure man in Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (1988), might have described King as a man who has forgotten his song.

But 65 years after it was first presented, "The Conjure Man Dies," subtitled "A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem," remains no more than an interesting curio.

Loomis is not only unmoored ("I been wandering a long time in somebody else's world"); he is a dismantled man "who done forgot his song," as the resident boarding-house conjure man, Bynum Walker (the vivid Roger Robinson), tells him.

Written by Rudolph Fisher, a Brown graduate, radiologist and hospital superintendent whose novels, "The Walls of Jericho" and "The Conjure Man," made him a noteworthy figure in the Harlem Renaissance before he died at 37, this adaptation was first produced posthumously in 1936 by the Federal Theater Project at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem.

Most of the spirit in "The Conjure Man Dies" is provided by Rafeal Clements as the inexperienced private eye Bubber Brown, a stubby comic figure out of the "Amos 'n' Andy" era who is full of inflated bluster when Perry Dart Curtis McClarinn), the dapper police detzapective assigned to the case, enlists him in the hunt for a killer.

Mudbone spoke with a strong Southern dialect and his tales were directly descended from the slave narratives that told (as the critic Darryl Pinckney described them) "of spirits riding people at night, of elixirs dearly bought from conjure men, chicken bones rubbed on those from whom love was wanted".

The day of my visit, in 1997, even as the theater awaited the arrival of Julie Taymor's production of "The Lion King," it wasn't hard to conjure men in top hats and women in ankle-length gowns sweeping into the playhouse and taking their seats under a ceiling that glowed with hidden lamps.

In his second novel, The Conjure-Man Dies (1932), Fisher presented a mystery and detective story, again set in Harlem and featuring an all-black cast.

(In this, Himes's work bears a distinct relationship to that of Rudolph Fisher, whose 1932 novel "The Conjure-Man Dies" is considered the first detective novel by a black American).

By 1956, Mr. Joe had a show at the Whitney and Mr. Champlin was an illustrator who conjured men's wear in the Garment District before photography wiped out his craft.