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Erica Edwards
Erica Edwards has written about African American narrative, American popular culture, and the contemporary history of black politics and black social movements in American Quarterly, American Literary History, Women & Performance, Callaloo, and elsewhere. Her book, Charisma and The Fictions of Black Leadership is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press.
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