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Record Nr.

UNISA996202478803316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Malcolm X / / edited by Robert E. Terrill [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-139-80106-6

0-511-77763-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to American studies

Soggetti

African American Muslims

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad / Claude Clegg -- Autobiography and identity : Malcolm X as author and hero / Alex Gillespie -- Bringing Malcolm X to Hollywood / Brian Norman -- Malcolm X and black masculinity in process / Jeffrey B. Leak -- Womanizing Malcolm X / Sheila Radford-Hill -- Malcolm X and the Black Arts Movement / James Smethurst -- Malcolm X and African American conservatism / Angela D. Dillard -- Malcolm X and youth culture / Richard Brent Turner -- Homo rhetoricus Afro-Americanus : Malcolm X and the "rhetorical ideal of life" / Mark Lawrence McPhail -- Judgment and critique in the rhetoric of Malcolm X / Robert E. Terrill -- Nightmarish landscapes : geography and the dystopian writings of Malcolm X / James Tyner -- Afrocentricity and Malcolm X / Molefi Kete Asante -- Malcolm X in global perspective / Kevin Gaines -- The legacy of Malcolm X / William W. Sales, Jr.

Sommario/riassunto

Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned essays by prominent scholars from a range of disciplines. As a result, this is an unusually rich analysis of this important African American leader, orator, and cultural icon. Intended as a source of information on his



life, career and influence and as an innovative substantive scholarly contribution in its own right, the book also includes an introduction, a chronology of the life of Malcolm X, and a select bibliography.