LEADER 03277nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910973415703321 005 20240514010621.0 010 $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 $a20140131d2011 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe postwar African American novel $eprotest and discontent, 1945-1950 /$fStephanie Brown 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aJackson, [Miss.] $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (203 p.) 225 1 $aMargaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$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 8 $aAmericans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. However, the names on the books were less well-known ones such as Frank Yerby, Chester Himes, William Gardner Smith, and J. Saunders Redding. This book recovers the work of these innovative novelists, overturning conventional wisdom about the writers of the period and the trajectory of African American literary history. The book also questions the assumptions about the relations between race and genre that have obscured the importance of these once-influential creators. 410 0$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-$01818505 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973415703321 996 $aThe postwar African American novel$94377696 997 $aUNINA