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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2011.
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| coleção: | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=360830 |
Sumário:
- 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.