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conceptions of the African American West
"Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos undertakes 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 underrepresented in studies focused only on traditional literary material. The book engages heretofore unexamined writing by Rose Gordon, who wrote for local Montana newspapers rather than for a national audience; memoirs and letters of musicians, performers, and singers (such as W.C. Handy and Taylor Gordon), who lived in or wrote about touring the American West; the novels and films of Oscar Micheaux; black-cast westerns starring Herb Jeffries; largely unappreciated and unexamined episodes from the "golden age of western television" that feature African American actors; film and television westerns that use science fiction settings to imagine a "postracial" or "postsoul" frontier; Percival Everett's fiction addressing contemporary black western experience; and movies as recent as Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. Despite recent interest in the history of the African American West, we know very little about how the African American past in the West has been depicted in a full range of imaginative forms. Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos advances our discovery of how the African American West has been experienced, imagined, portrayed, and performed"--
Introduction -- Performing (in) the African American West : minstrel shows, brass bands, hoo-doo cowboys, and other musical tricksters -- "Try to refrain from that desire" : self-control and violent passion in Oscar Micheaux's African American Western -- "This strange white world" : race and place in Era Bell Thompson's American daughter and Rose Gordon's newspaper writing -- Cowboys, cooks, and comics : African American characters in westerns of the 1930s -- Oscar Micheaux, The exile, and the Black western race film -- Sammy Davis Jr., Woody Strode, and the Black westerner of the civil rights era -- Looking at the big picture : Percival Everett's western fiction -- The post-soul cowboy on the science fiction frontier -- Conclusion : The D is silent.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-269) and index.
Noirs américains dans la culture populaire
Johnson, Michael K. (Michael Kyle), 1963-
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014
Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies