"Charisme Dans la littérature." . . "Charisma (Personality trait) in literature." . . "Charisma (Personality trait) in literature" . . . "American literature African American authors History and criticism." . . "Littérature américaine Auteurs noirs américains Histoire et critique." . . "Blacks in literature." . . "Blacks in literature" . "Roman." . . "Führung." . . "Bürgerrechtsbewegung." . . "American literature African American authors." . . "American literature African American authors" . "Charisma." . . "Noirs Dans la littérature." . . "Leadership Dans la littérature." . . "Electronic books"@en . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Charisma and the fictions of black leadership" . . . "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."@en . . . . "Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership"@en . "Charisma and the fictions of Black leadership" . . . . "\"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 reading. Examining a number of literary restagings of black leadership in African American fiction by W.E.B. Du Bois, George Schuyler, Zora Neale Hurston, William Melvin Kelley, Paul Beatty, and Toni Morrison, Edwards demonstrates how African American literature has contested charisma as a structuring fiction of modern black politics.\"--Page 4 of cover." . . . . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership" . . "Leadership in literature." . . "Leadership in literature" . "USA." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies" . . "Charismatiker." . . "Literature." . . "Schwarze." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM American General." . .