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Thus where material comes from, and what has been done to it are separable and of equal significance in collaborations. Malcolm X with Alex Haley. In Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X , Dyson criticizes historians and biographers of the time for re-purposing the Autobiography as a transcendent narrative by a "mythological" Malcolm X without being critical enough of the underlying ideas.

Retrieved July 11, Wood, Joe, ed. Los Angeles: Holloway House. Black Routes to Islam Hardcover ed. Malcolm X. Narrative presentation [ edit ]. JSTOR Malcolm's fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.

Archived from the original on July 22, The Autobiography of Malcolm X has sold well since its publication. May Marable wonders whether this project might have led some within the Nation of Islam and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to try to silence Malcolm X. Got inside them. Bob Zellner James Zwerg. Lee, Spike ; Wiley, Ralph According to Manning Marable , "Haley was particularly worried about what he viewed as Malcolm X's anti-Semitism " and he rewrote material to eliminate it.

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Civic and economic groups. Martin Luther King Sr. African Americans. Retrieved January 11, The timing of the collaboration meant that Haley occupied an advantageous position to document the multiple conversion experiences of Malcolm X and his challenge was to form them, however incongruent, into a cohesive workable narrative. His co-author, the journalist Alex Haley , summarizes the last days of Malcolm X's life, and describes in detail their working agreement, including Haley's personal views on his subject, in the Autobiography ' s epilogue.

Though a writer's skill and imagination have combined words and voice into a more or less convincing and coherent narrative, the actual writer [Haley] has no large fund of memories to draw upon: the subject's [Malcolm X] memory and imagination are the original sources of the arranged story and have also come into play critically as the text takes final shape.

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Screenplay adaptations [ edit ]. Harvard University Press Blog. Further reading [ edit ]. Tools Tools. In the Doubleday publishing company asked Haley to write a book about the life of Malcolm X.