Michael K. Johnson. Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature.(Book Review) From: African American Review | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: Reilly, John M. | COPYRIGHT 2003 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2002. 293 pp. $34.95.

Among American cultural products only jazz has equaled the story of the frontier for durability. Before its classical formulation in the famous essay by Frederick Jackson Turner on "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893), recital of the encounter of representative civilized men with wilderness (or vacant spaces) and its denizens had been rendered in numerous exploration narratives such as Cabeza de Vaca...