Exodus politics : : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture / / Robert J. Patterson.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Charlottesville : : University of Virginia Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Table of 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?.