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020 _a9780813935270
020 _a081393527x
020 _z9780813935256 (cloth : acid-free paper)
020 _z9780813935263 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
020 _z0813935253
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aPS153.N5
_bP366 2013
082 0 0 _a810.9/896073
_223
100 1 _aPatterson, Robert J.,
_d1980-
245 1 0 _aExodus politics
_h[electronic resource] :
_bcivil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture /
_cRobert J. Patterson.
260 _aCharlottesville :
_bUniversity of Virginia Press,
_c2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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?.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aLeadership in literature.
650 0 _aCivil rights in literature.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813935270/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c34102
_d34102