TY - BOOK ID - 3490108 TI - Failed Frontiersmen : White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance PY - 2015 VL - *5 SN - 9780813936833 9780813936826 0813936829 9780813936840 0813936845 0813936837 PB - Charlottesville : Baltimore, Md. : University of Virginia Press, Project MUSE, DB - UniCat KW - Barth, John, 1930 . The Sot-Weed Factor KW - Frontier and pioneer life in literature KW - Hommes dans la littérature KW - Landontginners en pioniersleven in de literatuur KW - Mannen in de literatuur KW - Men in literature KW - Racism in literature KW - Racisme dans la littérature KW - Racisme in de literatuur KW - Sexism in literature KW - Sexisme dans la littérature KW - Sexisme in de literatuur KW - Vie des défricheurs et des pionniers dans la littérature KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - Doctorow, Edgar Laurence KW - Pynchon, Thomas KW - Reed, Ishmael KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Vizenor, Gerald Robert KW - McCarthy, Cormac KW - Sexism in literature. KW - Racism in literature. KW - Men in literature. KW - Frontier and pioneer life in literature. KW - American literature KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3490108 AB - Although these writers focus on different moments in American history and different geographic locations, the author reveals their commonly held belief that the frontier mythology failed to deliver on its promises of cultural stability and political advancement, especially in the face of the multicultural crucible of the 1960s.Cultural Frames, Framing Culture American Literatures Initiative. ER -