03207nam 2200661 a 450 991079028750332120220204233920.01-4529-4748-10-8166-8022-1(CKB)2670000000180167(EBL)902558(OCoLC)792688100(SSID)ssj0000633201(PQKBManifestationID)11941500(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000633201(PQKBWorkID)10616154(PQKB)11195020(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177362(MiAaPQ)EBC902558(MdBmJHUP)muse29904(Au-PeEL)EBL902558(CaPaEBR)ebr10555680(CaONFJC)MIL525800(EXLCZ)99267000000018016720110818d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCharisma and the fictions of Black leadership[electronic resource] /Erica R. EdwardsMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20121 online resource (273 p.)Difference incorporatedDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-7546-5 0-8166-7545-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Restaging the charismatic scenario: fictions of African American leadership -- Leadership's looks: the aesthetics of black political modernity -- Moses, monster of the mountain: gendered violence in Zora Neale Hurston's Gothic -- Disappearing the leader: the vanishing spectacle in civil rights fiction -- "Cyanide in the kool-aid": black politics and popular culture after civil rights -- Claim ticket lost: Toni Morrison's Paradise and American literature's Holy hollow.Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership-this is the fiction that shaped African American culture throughout the twentieth century. If we understand this, Erica R. Edwards tells us, we will better appreciate the dramatic variations within both the modern black freedom struggle and the black literary tradition. By considering leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Barack Obama as both historical personages and narrative inventions of contemporary American culture, Edwards brings to the study of black politicsDifference incorporated.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismBlack people in literatureLeadership in literatureCharisma (Personality trait) in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Black people in literature.Leadership in literature.Charisma (Personality trait) in literature.810.9/896073Edwards Erica R(Erica Renee)1474990MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790287503321Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership3688955UNINA