Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material
Author Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963-

Title Black masculinity and the frontier myth in American literature / Michael K. Johnson.

Publication Info. Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]
©2002

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS169.F7 J64 2002    Available  ---
Description 293 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Literature of the American West ; v. 9
Literature of the American West ; v. 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.
Contents "My Dress Was Purely in the Indian Stile": Transformation and Manhood on the American Frontier -- Civilized Manliness on the South Dakota Frontier -- "You Have Got to Be the Man All Through This Mess": Performing Gender in The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Winona, and The Virginian -- "Half a Man at Best": The Ritual Hunt and Manhood Denied -- "How Does It Feel to Be a White Man?": New Frontiers in The Stone Face -- The Frontier Myth and Metaphors of Vision in The Man Who Cried I Am.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- African American authors.
African American pioneers -- Biography -- History and criticism.
African American pioneers.
Biography.
American literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
American literature.
African Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life.
African Americans.
Intellectual life.
Western stories -- History and criticism.
Western stories.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
African American men in literature.
African American men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Myth in literature.
Myth in literature.
Men in literature.
Men in literature.
ISBN 0806134143
9780806134147
0806134011 hardcover alkaline paper
9780806134017 hardcover alkaline paper