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The postwar African American novel [electronic resource] : protest and discontent, 1945-1950 /

by Brown, Stephanie; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies: Publisher: Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, 2011Description: 194 p.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Protest literature, American -- History and criticism | African Americans in literature | Discontent in literature | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.


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