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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963- Hoo-doo cowboys and bronze buckaroos. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 (DLC) 2013025422 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael K Johnson |
ISBN: | 9781617039294 1617039292 9781626740013 1626740011 |
OCLC Number: | 851754661 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Performing (in) the African American West: Minstrel Shows, Brass Bands, Hoo-Doo Cowboys, and Other Musical Tricksters; 2. "Try to Refrain from That Desire": Self-Control and Violent Passion in Oscar Micheaux's African American Western; 3. "This Strange White World": Race and Place in Era Bell Thompson's American Daughter and Rose Gordon's Newspaper Writing; 4. Cowboys, Cooks, and Comics: African American Characters in Westerns of the 1930s; 5. Oscar Micheaux, The Exile, and the Black Western Race Film. 6. Sammy Davis Jr., Woody Strode, and the Black Westerner of the Civil Rights Era7. Looking at the Big Picture: Percival Everett's Western Fiction; 8. The Post-Soul Cowboy on the Science Fiction Frontier; CONCLUSION THE D Is Silent; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
Series Title: | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. |
Responsibility: | Michael K. Johnson. |
Abstract:
Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the African American West through close readings of texts from a variety of media. This approach allows for both an in-depth analysis of individual texts and a discussion of material often left out or under-represented in studies focused only on traditional literary material.
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