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Moses, Monster of the Mountain: Gendered Violence in Black Leadership's Gothic Tale
Ist Teil von
Callaloo, 2008-10, Vol.31 (4), p.1084-1102
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Edwards explores on how women's power violently confronts the masculinist strictures of charismatic authority, citing Zora Neale Hurston's 1939 novel, Moses, Man of the Mountain. She refers the novel as a rewriting of the biblical Exodus story, which is a generative myth of the mystical foundations of political authority in the African Diasporic world. She argues that Miriam's story in the novel is a story of a feminist martyr whose exposure of the masculinist bias of the charismatic model of leadership is punished by death, and that Miriam's story is black leadership's gothic tale.