Failed frontiersmen : white men and myth in the post-sixties American historical romance

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Failed frontiersmen : white men and myth in the post-sixties American historical romance

Title remainder

white men and myth in the post-sixties American historical romance

Statement of responsibility

James J. Donahue

Creator

• Donahue, James J., 1974-

Subject

• American fiction
• American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• Frontier and pioneer life in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
• Men in literature
• Men in literature
• Racism in literature
• Racism in literature
• Sexism in literature
• Sexism in literature
• 1900-2099

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"In Failed Frontiersmen, James Donahue writes that one of the founding and most persistent mythologies of the United States is that of the American frontier. Looking at a selection of twentieth-century American male fiction writers--E.L. Doctorow, John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Gerald Vizenor, and Cormac McCarthy--he shows how they reevaluated the historical romance of frontier mythology in response to the social and political movements of the 1960s (particularly regarding the Vietnam War, civil rights, and the treatment of Native Americans). Although these writers focus on different moments in American history and different geographic locations, the author reveals their commonly held belief that the frontier mythology failed to deliver on its promises of cultural stability and political advancement, especially in the face of the multicultural crucible of the 1960s."--Publisher's description

Member of

• Cultural frames, framing culture

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

813/.509355

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PS374.F73

LC item number

D66 2015eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Cultural frames, framing culture