03352nam 2200697 a 450 991045970550332120200520144314.01-283-16846-497866131684671-60473-974-6(CKB)2670000000078546(EBL)680057(OCoLC)712016222(SSID)ssj0000486646(PQKBManifestationID)11347227(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486646(PQKBWorkID)10449725(PQKB)10237478(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204116(MiAaPQ)EBC680057(MdBmJHUP)muse13535(Au-PeEL)EBL680057(CaPaEBR)ebr10457073(CaONFJC)MIL316846(EXLCZ)99267000000007854620100902d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe postwar African American novel[electronic resource] protest and discontent, 1945-1950 /Stephanie BrownJackson [Miss.] University Press of Mississippi20111 online resource (203 p.)Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-60473-973-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 hMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismProtest literature, AmericanHistory and criticismAfrican Americans in literatureDiscontent in literatureElectronic books.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Protest literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.African Americans in literature.Discontent in literature.813/.5409896073Brown Stephanie1970-986541MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459705503321The postwar African American novel2254658UNINA