{"product_id":"hoo-doo-cowboys-and-bronze-buckaroos-conceptions-of-the-african-american-west-paperback-softback-9781496804624","title":"Hoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos; Conceptions of the African American West (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496804624","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConceptions of the African American West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael K. Johnson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496804624\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 July 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e298 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.427 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eDjango Unchained\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite 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. \u003cem\u003eHoo-Doo Cowboys and Bronze Buckaroos\u003c\/em\u003e advances our discovery of how the African American West has been experienced, imagined, portrayed, and performed.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702513463576,"sku":"9781496804624","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hoo-doo-cowboys-and-bronze-buckaroos-conceptions-of-the-african-american-west-paperback-softback-9781496804624","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}