TY - BOOK ID - 138564168 TI - Black masculinity and the frontier myth in American literature PY - 2002 SN - 0806134143 9780806134147 0806134011 9780806134017 PB - Norman, Okla. University of Oklahoma Press DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - African American pioneers KW - African Americans KW - Western stories KW - Frontier and pioneer life in literature KW - African American men in literature KW - Masculinity in literature KW - Myth in literature KW - Men in literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Biography KW - Intellectual life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138564168 AB - "Folowing his discussion of the frontier in the American West, Johnson explores how writers invent new frontiers by mythologizing or reimagining various locations, such as Paris in the 1960s or the African continent. Johnson also addresses efforts by black authors to develop a frontier identity that transcends the gaps between the cultures of Africa and the mainstream culture of the United States."--Jacket. ER -