03277nam 2200685 a 450 991097341570332120240514010621.01-283-16846-497866131684671-60473-974-6(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)99267000000007854620140131d2011 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe postwar African American novel protest and discontent, 1945-1950 /Stephanie Brown1st ed.Jackson, [Miss.] University Press of Mississippic20111 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. However, the names on the books were less well-known ones such as Frank Yerby, Chester Himes, William Gardner Smith, and J. Saunders Redding. This book recovers the work of these innovative novelists, overturning conventional wisdom about the writers of the period and the trajectory of African American literary history. The book also questions the assumptions about the relations between race and genre that have obscured the importance of these once-influential creators.Margaret 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 literatureAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Protest literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.African Americans in literature.Discontent in literature.813/.5409896073Brown Stephanie1970-1818505StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910973415703321The postwar African American novel4377696UNINA