Fooled by Their Own Kind: Pharmakon and the Many Masked Tricksters in Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.72-82" target="_blank" >10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.72-82</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Fooled by Their Own Kind: Pharmakon and the Many Masked Tricksters in Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”
Original language description
This paper explores the multifaceted power of trickster figures evident in Charles W Chesnutt’s most frequently anthologized conjure story, “The Goophered Grapevine” (1887). It recounts the intertextual origin of a striking human and nonhuman hybrid character in the story. In an outlandish framed tale narrated by a former slave after the Civil War, Black slaves and their White master trick each other and people outside the North Carolina plantation after a conjure woman’s magical “pharmakon” goes awry, causing unintended supernatural consequences for a valuable slave. Incorporating aspects of a belief system Africans brought across the Atlantic, the tale itself is a means to frighten and thereby trick a White ‘carpetbagger’ from Ohio from purchasing a plantation. Nearly all of Chesnutt’s tricksters, like the ‘signifying monkey’ of Henry Louis Gates’ study of the famous African trickster figure, fail to prevail in the end. Through these multiple trickster figures, including instances of Blacks tricking Blacks and Whites tricking Whites, Chesnutt negotiates the complexities of plantation relationships while alluding to the injustices of slavery itself.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60204 - General literature studies
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
IUP Journal of English Studies
ISSN
0973-3728
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Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
IN - INDIA
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
72-82
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105025151361