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11%OFFErica R. Edwards - Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership - 9780816675463 - V9780816675463
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership

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Description for Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Paperback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.

Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership—this is the fiction that shaped African American culture throughout the twentieth century. If we understand this, Erica R. Edwards tells us, we will better appreciate the dramatic variations within both the modern black freedom struggle and the black literary tradition.

By considering leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Barack Obama as both historical personages and narrative inventions of contemporary American culture, Edwards brings to the study of black politics the tools of intertextual narrative analysis as well as deconstruction and close ... Read more

Though recent scholarship has challenged top-down accounts of historical change, the presumption that history is made by gifted men continues to hold sway in American letters and life. This may be, Edwards shows us, because while charisma is a transformative historical phenomenon, it carries an even stronger seductive narrative power that obscures the people and methods that have created social and political shifts.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Difference Incorporated
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816675463
SKU
V9780816675463
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Ref
99-50

About Erica R. Edwards
Erica R. Edwards is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews for Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
"In Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership, Erica R. Edwards has constructed a radical re-imagining of black political culture and an alternative narrative of its historical emergence. By critically examining the myths of charismatic leaders as the singular progenitors of liberation, Edwards takes issue with the representations of the black freedom movement most frequently rehearsed by biographers, social historians, ... Read more

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