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UNINA9910789864003321 |
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Autore |
Brown Stephanie <1970-> |
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Titolo |
The postwar African American novel [[electronic resource] ] : protest and discontent, 1945-1950 / / Stephanie Brown |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Jackson [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-16846-4 |
9786613168467 |
1-60473-974-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Collana |
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Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Protest literature, American - History and criticism |
African Americans in literature |
Discontent in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Beyond protest: retracing the margins of the postwar African American novel -- "If I can only get it funny!": Chester Himes's parodic protest novels -- Frank Yerby and the "costume drama" of Southern historiography -- William Gardner Smith and the cosmopolitan war novel -- J. Saunders Redding and the African American campus novel. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Americans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. But the names on the books lining shelves and filling barracks trunks were not the now-familiar Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but Frank Yerby, Chester Himes, William Gardner Smith, and J. Saunders Redding. In this book, Stephanie Brown recovers the work of these innovative novelists, overturning conventional wisdom about the writers of the period and the trajectory of African American literary history. She also questions the assumptions about the relations between race and genre that h |
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