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Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture
Title
Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture / Robert J. Patterson.
ISBN
9780813935256 (hc : acid-free paper)
0813935253 (hc : acid-free paper)
9780813935263 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0813935261 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780813935270 (e-book)
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xiii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 19, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Gendered contexts: civil rights, leadership, exodus politics, and African American literature
Is he the one?: the politics of gender and gender politics: civil rights activism and leadership in Ernest Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The refusal of Christ to accept crucifixion: bridge leadership refutes the paradoxes of exodus politics in Alice Walker's Meridian
The important thing is making generations: reconsidering reproduction and blues performances as forms of civil rights leadership in Gayl Jones' Corregidora
We all killed him the limits of (formal) leadership and civil rights legislation in Charles Johnson's Dreamer
Epilogue: Is there life after exodus politics?
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