
By James J. Donahue
ISBN-10: 0813936829
ISBN-13: 9780813936826
ISBN-10: 0813936837
ISBN-13: 9780813936833
In Failed Frontiersmen, James Donahue writes that one
of the founding and so much chronic mythologies of the USA is that of the American
frontier. a range 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 ancient romance of frontier mythology in accordance with the social and
political routine of the Sixties (particularly concerning the Vietnam battle, civil rights, and the
remedy of local Americans). even if those writers specialize in diverse moments in American
historical past and varied geographic destinations, the writer finds their generally held trust that
the frontier mythology did not convey on its offers of cultural balance and political
development, in particular within the face of the multicultural crucible of the
1960s.
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