Imagining the African American West

The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies with Imagining the African American West—the first comprehensive study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West.
 
Allmendinger charts the terrain of African American literature in the West through his exploration of novels, histories, autobiographie…