Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Erica R. (Erica Renee)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Leadership in literature.
Charisma (Personality trait) in literature.
Black people in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Charisme dans la litterature.
Leadership dans la litterature.
Personnes noires dans la litterature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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