Paul john eakin autobiography of malcolm

* Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, Paul John Eakin has written on nineteenth-century American fiction and autobiography.

Eakin, Paul John (1976) "Malcolm X and the Limits of Autobiography," Criticism: Vol. 18: Iss. 3, Article 2.

Author Paul John Eakin and writer Alex Gillespie suggest that part of the Autobiography's rhetorical power comes from "the vision of a man whose swiftly unfolding career had outstripped the possibilities of the traditional autobiography he had meant to write", thus destroying "the illusion of the finished and unified.

Malcolm X and the Limits of Autobiography was published in Autobiography on page 181 From the book Autobiography.

Malcolm X and the Limits of Autobiography Paul John Eakin When a complex and controversial figure writes a book that has achieved the distinction and.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography of African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist

The Autobiography of Malcolm X is an autobiography written by American minister Malcolm X, who collaborated with American journalist Alex Haley.

It was released posthumously on October 29, 1965, nine months after his assassination. Haley coauthored the autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews he conducted between 1963 and 1965.

The first four essays review the major historical periods of American autobiography, placing the classic texts of American autobiographical literature from.

The Autobiography is a spiritual conversion narrative that outlines Malcolm X's philosophy of black pride, black nationalism, and pan-Africanism. After the leader was killed, Haley wrote the book's epilogue.^[a] He described their collaborative process and the events at the end of Malcolm X's life.

While Malcolm X and scholars contemporary to the book's publication regarded Haley as the book's ghostwriter, modern scholars tend to regard him as an essential collaborator who intentionally muted his authorial voice to crea