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A study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West. It charts the terrain of African American literature in the West through an exploration of novels, histories, autobiographies, science fiction, mysteries, formula westerns, melodramas, experimental theater, political essay, and rap music and film.

Table of Contents
1: Beckwourth's Pass; 2: The Pioneering Adventures of Oscar Micheaux; 3: Slavery, Secession, and Uncivil War; 4: The Significance of the Frontier in the New Negro Renaissance; 5: Hip Hopalong Cassidy: Cowboys and Rappers; 6: Black Noir; 7: Everybody Comes to California to Die; 8: Women Rewriting History

Imagining the African American West

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    A Paperback by Blake Allmendinger

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      Publisher: MQ - University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780803220829, 978-0803220829
      ISBN10: 0803220820

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West. It charts the terrain of African American literature in the West through an exploration of novels, histories, autobiographies, science fiction, mysteries, formula westerns, melodramas, experimental theater, political essay, and rap music and film.

      Table of Contents
      1: Beckwourth's Pass; 2: The Pioneering Adventures of Oscar Micheaux; 3: Slavery, Secession, and Uncivil War; 4: The Significance of the Frontier in the New Negro Renaissance; 5: Hip Hopalong Cassidy: Cowboys and Rappers; 6: Black Noir; 7: Everybody Comes to California to Die; 8: Women Rewriting History

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