Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture / Robert J. Patterson.

By: Patterson, Robert J, 1980-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813935270Subject(s): American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism | Civil rights in literature | Leadership in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/896073 LOC classification: PS153.N5 | P366 2013Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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