{"product_id":"imagining-the-african-american-west-paperback","title":"Imagining the African American West - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBlake Allmendinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies with \u003ci\u003eImagining the African American West\u003c\/i\u003e--the first comprehensive study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West. Allmendinger charts the terrain of African American literature in the West through his exploration of novels, histories, autobiographies, science fiction, mysteries, formula westerns, melodramas, experimental theater, and political essays, as well as rap music and film. He examines the histories of James P. Beckwourth and Oscar Micheaux; slavery, the Civil War, and the significance of the American frontier to blacks; and the Harlem Renaissance, the literature of urban unrest, rap music, black noir, and African American writers, including Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley. His study utilizes not only the works of well-known African American writers but also some obscure and neglected works, out-of-print books, and unpublished manuscripts in library archives. Much of the scholarly neglect of the \"Black West\" can be blamed on how the American West has been imagined, constructed, and framed in scholarship to date. In his study, Allmendinger provides the appropriate theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts for understanding the literature and suggests new directions for the future of black western literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eOver the Edge: Remapping the American West\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eTen Most Wanted: The New Western Literature.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 166\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782316163360,"sku":"9780803220829","price":32.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/438239d811502de101f320681a8ed602.webp?v=1780567884","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/imagining-the-african-american-west-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}