Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership [[electronic resource] /] / Erica R. Edwards

• Autore: Edwards Erica R (Erica Renee)
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/896073
• Soggetto topico: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; Black people in literature; Leadership in literature; Charisma (Personality trait) in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 politics
• Titolo autorizzato: Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership
• ISBN: 1-4529-4748-1; 0-8166-8022-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820735003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Difference incorporated.