A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (631 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1574780492 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 308 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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""Marable's greatest contribution has been to resurrect Malcolm X." p.179" according to Eddie Hutchinson. If you are planning to read or have read `Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention' by Manning Marable, I suggest upon completion you follow up with this book.'A Lie of Reinvention' is a compilation of essays by noted writers & scholars addressing Marable's biography on Malcolm X. Convincing arguments are made here; some quite scholarly, but not unpredictable given what Marable wrote. The c. "The need to read critically." according to John W Howard. A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X brought together scholars who had done a lot of research on Malcolm before Manning Marable's book. Many of the scholars presented in great detail documentation about the inacurracies of conclusions based on assumptions made by Marable. It brings into question the contextualizing of Malcolm in Marable's book. I will have to. "a lie of reinvention: correcting manning marble" according to george c. luckette. great book for malcolm scholars, it just goes to show just how great a man malcolm x really waswe will never know how great he could have been, but we do know how wonderful he wasno one has ever traveled so far in life in such a short period, we should remain focused on finding out the truth behind his murderhistory will never be completed until all names are mentioned, and brought
A Lie of Reinvention is a response to Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention. Marable’s book was controversially acclaimed by some as his magna opus. Peter Bailey, a veteran journalist who worked with Malcolm X’s Organization for Afro-American Unity, disputes how he is characterized in Marable’s book. Tinson, Eugene Puryear and Greg Thomas join veterans Rosmari Mealy, Raymond Winbush, Amiri Baraka and Karl Evanzz in pointing out historical problems and ideological misinterpretations in Marable’s work.. This time, the threat is presented as an authoritative biography. In this collection of critical essays, editors Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs lead a group of established and emerging Black scholars and activists who take a clear stance in this controversy: Marable’s biography is at best flawed and at worst a major setback in American history, African American studies, and scholarship on the life of Malcolm X.In the tradition of John Henrik Clarke’s classic anthology William Styron’s Nat Turner: