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INTRODUCTION ix Part I. Charisma 1. Restaging the Charismatic Scenario Fictions of African American Leadership 3 2. Leadership’s Looks The Aesthetics of Black Political Modernity 35 Part II. Contestations 3. Moses, Monster of the Mountain Gendered Violence in Zora Neale Hurston’s Gothic 77 4. Disappearing the Leader The Vanishing Spectacle in Civil Rights Fiction 105 Part III. Curiosities 5. “Cyanide in the Kool-Aid” Black Politics and Popular Culture after Civil Rights 135 6. Claim Ticket Lost Toni Morrison’s Paradise and African American Literature’s Holy Hollow 167 EPILOGUE 187 ACKNOWLEDGMENTs 195 NOTES 199 INDEX 233 Contents This page intentionally left blank ...
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