Life Writing in Malcolm X, LeRoi Jones, and Martin Luther King Jr.

      Аннотация: Literary autobiographies that reveal the private spaces in the public lives of leaders who have moulded history and inspired millions of followers are analyzed to offer a comparative study. This book is a peek into their consciousness about how they lived, what they chose to tell and how they chose to tell it. A must read for literature graduates interested in life writing as well as for those curious about the lives of the three great leaders of the modern world.

Ключевые слова: African American Literature, American History, American literature, Amiri Baraka, autobiography, Civil Rights Movement, malcolm x, Martin Luther King Jr., Narrative, theory, Life Writing, LeRoi Jones, Public and Private lives, Black Literature