American writings often express a hunger for a mythologized frontier at the edge of known civilization, where one's identity, choices, and decisions are not limited by convention. Since the nineteenth century, writers have used this frontier space both to probe and to define the meanings of masculinity. In Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature, Michael K.
Author: Michael K. Johnson · Original publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, 2002)
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