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Imagining the African American West

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ISBN-10: 0803220820

ISBN-13: 9780803220829

Edition: N/A

Authors: Blake Allmendinger

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The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies withImagining the African American West-the first comprehensive study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West. Allmendinger charts the terrain of African American literature in the West through his exploration of novels, histories, autobiographies, science fiction, mysteries, formula westerns, melodramas, experimental theater, and political essays, as well as rap music and film. He examines the histories of James P. Beckwourth and Oscar Micheaux; slavery, the…    
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Book details

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 166
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

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