The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X

by Robert E. Terrill

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521731577
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/10/2010
Series:	Cambridge Companions to American Studies
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Robert E. Terrill is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Chronology x

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction Robert E. Terrill 1

1 Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad Claude Clegg 10

2 Autobiography and identity: Malcolm X as author and hero Alex Gillespie 26

3 Bringing Malcolm X to Hollywood Brian Norman 39

4 Malcolm X and black masculinity in process Jeffrey B. Leak 51

5 Womanizing Malcolm X Sheila Radford-Hill 63

6 Malcolm X and the Black Arts Movement James Smethurst 78

7 Malcolm X and African American conservatism Angela D. Dillard 90

8 Malcolm X and youth culture Richard Brent Turner 101

9 Homo rhetoricus Afro-Americanus: Malcolm X and the "rhetorical ideal of life" Mark Lawrence McPhail 113

10 Judgment and critique in the rhetoric of Malcolm X Robert E. Terrill 125

11 Nightmarish landscapes: geography and the dystopian writings of Malcolm X James Tyner 137

12 Afrocentricity and Malcolm X Molefi Kete Asante 150

13 Malcolm X in global perspective Kevin Gaines 158

14 The legacy of Malcolm X William W. Sales, Jr. 171

Guide to further reading 185

Index 191