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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patterson, Robert J. (Robert John)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Civil rights in literature.

Leadership in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By considering the competing and varied political interests of black communities, these writers reimagine the dominant models in a way that can empower communities to be self-sustaining in the absence of a messianic male leader.

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?.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2013).

ISBN:

9780813935270

081393527X

OCLC:

858652532