Frontiers of Boyhood

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Frontiers of Boyhood

Martin Woodside was a U.S. Fulbright student to Romania back in 2009-2010, his research involving a comparative study between U.S. Culture and Modern Romanian Poetry. Martin’s new volume has just been released:

“It turns out all those years of research and writing were not in vain; my book Frontiers of Boyhood: Imagining America Past and Future is now out from Oklahoma University Press. What's this book about, you say? Well, it's about dime novels, Wild West shows, Mark Twain, and playing Cowboys and Indians. A lot of it ended up being about Buffalo Bill. This generous blurb from James Marten describes it pretty well:

Martin Woodside deftly interprets constructions of region, gender, race, and class, and draws on thinkers from Herbert Spencer to Frederick Jackson Turner, and from G. Stanley Hall to Kenneth and Mamie Clark, to show how the West, real and imagined, shaped juvenile literature, performance, and play, and how youth shaped notions about the West’s meaning.

Hey, that doesn't sound half bad!

The book is, of course, available at fine bookstores everywhere (and, of course, Amazon), adorned by a flashy photo of child sharpshooter Johnny Baker.”