The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X

by Edited by Robert E. Terrill

• ISBN13: 9780521515900
• ISBN10: 0521515904
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-17
• 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

Chronology

Introduction

Malcolm X and Elijah

Autobiography and identity: Malcolm X as author and hero

Bringing Malcolm X to Hollywood

Malcolm X and black masculinity in process

Womanizing Malcolm X

Malcolm X and the black arts movement

Malcolm X and African American conservatism

Malcolm X and youth culture

Homo Rhetoricus AfroAmericanus: Malcolm X and the rhetorical ideal of life

Judgment and critique in the rhetoric of Malcolm X

Nightmarish landscapes: geography and the dystopian writings of Malcolm X

Afrocentricity and Malcolm X

Malcolm X in global perspective

The legacy of Malcolm X

Guide to further reading

Index

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