The postwar African American novel
Subtitle: protest and discontent, 1945-1950
By: Stephanie Brown
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies; Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781604739732; 9781604739749
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Discontent in literature; American Protest literature; African American authors; American fiction; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beyond protest: retracing the margins of the postwar African American novel; title: "If I can only get it funny!": Chester Himes's parodic protest novels; title: Frank Yerby and the "costume drama" of Southern historiography; title: William Gardner Smith and the cosmopolitan war novel; title: J. Saunders Redding and the African American campus novel.