TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,Robert J.
TI  - Exodus politics: civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture 
AV  - PS153.N5 P366 2013
U1  - 810.9/896073 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Civil rights in literature
KW  - Leadership in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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ER  -