The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X

by Edited by Robert E. Terrill

• ISBN13: 9780521731577
• ISBN10: 0521731577
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Chronology	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad	p. 10
Autobiography and identity: Malcolm X as author and hero	p. 26
Bringing Malcolm X to Hollywood	p. 39
Malcolm X and black masculinity in process	p. 51
Womanizing Malcolm X	p. 63
Malcolm X and the Black Arts Movement	p. 78
Malcolm X and African American conservatism	p. 90
Malcolm X and youth culture	p. 101
Homo rhetoricus Afro-Americanus: Malcolm X and the "rhetorical ideal of life"	p. 113
Judgment and critique in the rhetoric of Malcolm X	p. 125
Nightmarish landscapes: geography and the dystopian writings of Malcolm X	p. 137
Afrocentricity and Malcolm X	p. 150
Malcolm X in global perspective	p. 158
The legacy of Malcolm X	p. 171
Guide to further reading	p. 185
Index	p. 191
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