The postwar African American novel : protest and discontent, 1945-1950 / Stephanie Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Stephanie, 1970-

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Protest literature, American--History and criticism.

Protest literature, American.

African Americans in literature.

Discontent in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-16846-4

9786613168467

1-60473-974-6

OCLC:

712016222