LEADER 03319nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910789864003321 005 20230725030928.0 010 $a1-283-16846-4 010 $a9786613168467 010 $a1-60473-974-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000078546 035 $a(EBL)680057 035 $a(OCoLC)712016222 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486646 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347227 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486646 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10449725 035 $a(PQKB)10237478 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204116 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC680057 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13535 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL680057 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457073 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316846 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000078546 100 $a20100902d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe postwar African American novel$b[electronic resource] $eprotest and discontent, 1945-1950 /$fStephanie Brown 210 $aJackson [Miss.] $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (203 p.) 225 1 $aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60473-973-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aAmericans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. But the names on the books lining shelves and filling barracks trunks were not the now-familiar Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but Frank Yerby, Chester Himes, William Gardner Smith, and J. Saunders Redding. In this book, Stephanie Brown recovers the work of these innovative novelists, overturning conventional wisdom about the writers of the period and the trajectory of African American literary history. She also questions the assumptions about the relations between race and genre that h 410 0$aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aProtest literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aDiscontent in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aProtest literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aDiscontent in literature. 676 $a813/.5409896073 700 $aBrown$b Stephanie$f1970-$01477108 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789864003321 996 $aThe postwar African American novel$93692096 997 $aUNINA