How Long to Read Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 56 minutes to read Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature by Michael Kyle Johnson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

American writings often express a hunger for a mythologized frontier at the edge of known civilization, where one's identity, choices, and decisions are not limited by convention. Since the nineteenth century, writers have used this frontier space both to probe and to define the meanings of masculinity. In Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature, Michael K. Johnson examines the writings of black authors whose works use the mythologized frontier to explore black masculinity and identity formed in an environment free of racism and race-based restrictions. Black writers have reworked the mythology of the American West to address black male experiences more authentically, Johnson argues, grappling with such concerns as racial assimilation and the notion of "regenerative violence" as a method of masculine initiation. White-authored stories of frontier conquest often pit a white hunter against a hunted man of another race. In this ritual of the hunt, defeating the racial other renews white manhood. Black writers who invoke this ritual address the contradictions inherent in adapting a dominant culture form that routinely positions the black man as the hunted object rather than as the hunter. Following his discussion of the frontier in the American West, Johnson explores how writers invent new frontiers by mythologizing or reimagining various locations, such as Paris in the 1960s or the African continent. Johnson also addresses efforts by black authors to develop a frontier identity that transcends the gaps between the cultures of Africa and the mainstream culture of the United States.

How long is Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature?

Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature by Michael Kyle Johnson is 293 pages long, and a total of 74,129 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 45 minutes to read Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature?

Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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