Failed Frontiersmen White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance |
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| Author:
| Donahue, James J. |
| Series title: | Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3682-6 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $83.00 |
Book Description:
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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 - James Donahue 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).
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 - James Donahue 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).