02579nam 2200577 450 991081807380332120230803021658.00-8139-3527-X(CKB)2550000001118290(OCoLC)858652532(CaPaEBR)ebrary10765045(SSID)ssj0001000105(PQKBManifestationID)11625618(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001000105(PQKBWorkID)10951182(PQKB)10162901(MiAaPQ)EBC3444132(MdBmJHUP)muse27796(Au-PeEL)EBL3444132(CaPaEBR)ebr10765045(CaONFJC)MIL518630(EXLCZ)99255000000111829020130417d2013 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrExodus politics civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture /Robert J. PattersonCharlottesville :University of Virginia Press,2013.1 online resource (216 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-3525-3 1-299-87379-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Gendered contexts: civil rights, leadership, exodus politics, and African American literature -- Is he the one?: the politics of gender and gender politics: civil rights activism and leadership in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman -- The refusal of Christ to accept crucifixion: bridge leadership refutes the paradoxes of exodus politics in Alice Walker's Meridian -- The important thing is making generations: reconsidering reproduction and blues performances as forms of civil rights leadership in Gayl Jones' Corregidora -- We all killed him the limits of (formal) leadership and civil rights legislation in Charles Johnson's Dreamer -- Epilogue: Is there life after exodus politics?.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismCivil rights in literatureLeadership in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Civil rights in literature.Leadership in literature.810.9/896073Patterson Robert J.1980-1619456MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818073803321Exodus politics4038568UNINA