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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism. Blacks in literature. Leadership in literature. Charisma (Personality trait) in literature.