Edwards, Erica R.

Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership [electronic resource] / Erica R. Edwards. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012. - xxii, 249 p. - Difference incorporated . - Difference incorporated. .

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.


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2013.
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American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Blacks in literature.
Leadership in literature.
Charisma (Personality trait) in literature.


Electronic books.

PS153.N5 / E34 2012eb

810.9/896073