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Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership

Title
Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership / Erica R. Edwards.
Author
Edwards, Erica R. (Erica Renee)
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

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Description
xxii, 249 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Difference incorporated
Uniform Title
Difference incorporated.
Subject
  • American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
  • Black people in literature
  • Leadership in literature
  • Charisma (Personality trait) in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-231) and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc D 12-942
ISBN
  • 9780816675456 (hc : acid-free paper)
  • 0816675457 (hc : acid-free paper)
  • 9780816675463 (pb : acid-free paper)
  • 0816675465 (pb : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2011031793
OCLC
747331806
Author
Edwards, Erica R. (Erica Renee)
Title
Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership / Erica R. Edwards.
Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
Series
Difference incorporated
Difference incorporated.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-231) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc D 12-942
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