TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donahue,James J.
TI  - Failed frontiersmen: white men and myth in the post-sixties American historical romance 
T2  - Cultural frames, framing culture
SN  - 9780813936826
AV  - PS374.F73 D66 2015eb
U1  - 813/.509355 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life in literature
KW  - Men in literature
KW  - Racism in literature
KW  - Sexism in literature
KW  - Roman américain
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - Hommes dans la littérature
KW  - Racisme dans la littérature
KW  - Sexisme dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pages:1 to 25 -- Pages:26 to 50 -- Pages:51 to 75 -- Pages:76 to 100 -- Pages:101 to 125 -- Pages:126 to 150 -- Pages:151 to 175 -- Pages:176 to 200 -- Pages:201 to 225 -- Pages:226 to 231
N2  - "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
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