West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers

by Noreen Groover Lape

Expanding the scope of American borderland and frontier literary scholarship, West of the Border examines the writings of nineteenth- and turn-of-the-century Native, African, Asian, and Anglo American frontier writers. This book views frontiers as "human spaces" where cultures make contact as it considers multicultural frontier writers who speak from "west of the border."

James P. Beckwourth, a half-black fur trader; Sarah Winnemucca...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821413457
• ISBN13: 9780821413456
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"