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

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 nove...

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Kaituhi matua: Brown, Stephanie, 1970-
Hōputu: Licensed eBooks
Reo:Ingarihi
I whakaputaina: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Rangatū:Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Urunga tuihono:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=360830
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • 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.