The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X

This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy for students of American history.

Robert E. Terrill (Edited by)

9780521515900, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 May 2010

210 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.45 kg

Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned essays by prominent scholars from a range of disciplines. As a result, this is an unusually rich analysis of this important African American leader, orator, and cultural icon. Intended as a source of information on his life, career and influence and as an innovative substantive scholarly contribution in its own right, the book also includes an introduction, a chronology of the life of Malcolm X, and a select bibliography.

Chronology
Introduction Robert E. Terrill
1. Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad Claude Clegg
2. Autobiography and identity: Malcolm X as author and hero Alex Gillespie
3. Bringing Malcolm X to Hollywood Brian Norman
4. Malcolm X and black masculinity in process Jeffrey B. Leak
5. Womanizing Malcolm X Sheila Radford-Hill
6. Malcolm X and the black arts movement James Smethurst
7. Malcolm X and African American conservatism Angela D. Dillard
8. Malcolm X and youth culture Richard Brent Turner
9. Homo Rhetoricus AfroAmericanus: Malcolm X and the rhetorical ideal of life Mark Lawrence McPhail
10. Judgment and critique in the rhetoric of Malcolm X Robert E. Terrill
11. Nightmarish landscapes: geography and the dystopian writings of Malcolm X James Tyner
12. Afrocentricity and Malcolm X Molefi Kete Asante
13. Malcolm X in global perspective Kevin Gaines
14. The legacy of Malcolm X William W. Sales, Jr
Guide to further reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Comparative politics [JPB], Politics & government [JP], Literary studies: general [DSB], Literature: history & criticism [DS], Literature & literary studies [D]