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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Fooled by Their Own Kind: Pharmakon and the Many Masked Tricksters in Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Fooled by Their Own Kind: Pharmakon and the Many Masked Tricksters in Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”

Popis výsledku anglicky

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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J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

IUP Journal of English Studies

ISSN

0973-3728

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

20

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

IN - Indická republika

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

72-82

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105025151361