Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership [electronic resource] / Erica R. Edwards.
Series: Difference incorporatedPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.Description: xxii, 249 pISBN:- 9780816675456 (hc acid-free paper)
- 9780816675463 (pb acid-free paper)
- 9780816680221 (e-book)
- 810.9/896073 23
- PS153.N5 E34 2012eb

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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