The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950 (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies) PDF
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The Postwar African American Novel This page intentionally left blank THE POSTWAR AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVEL Protest and Discontent, 1945–1950 Stephanie Brown University Press of Mississippi / Jackson Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. “‘If I Can Only Get It Funny!’: Chester Himes’s Parodic Protest Novels” first appeared, in somewhat altered form, in Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States, edited by Josh Lukin (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008). Copyright © 2011 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2011 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brown, Stephanie, 1970– The postwar African American novel : protest and discontent, 1945–1950 / Stephanie Brown. p. cm. — (Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60473-973-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-60473-974-9 (ebook) 1. American fiction—African American authors—History and criticism. 2. American fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 3. Protest literature, American—History and criticism. 4. African Americans in literature. 5. Discontent in literature. I. Title. PS153.N5B677 2011 813’.5409896073—dc22 2010036027 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available To Stephen, Virginia, and Clara, without whose help, patience and forbearance this project could never have been completed. This page intentionally left blank Contents 3 Introduction CHAPTER ONE 7 Beyond Protest: Retracing the Margins of the Postwar African American Novel CHAPTERTWO 41 “If I Can Only Get It Funny!”: Chester Himes’s Parodic Protest Novels CHAPTERTHREE 67 Frank Yerby and the “Costume Drama” of Southern Historiography CHAPTER FOUR 99 William Gardner Smith and the Cosmopolitan War Novel CHAPTER FIVE 132 J. Saunders Redding and the African American Campus Novel 161 Conclusion 165 Notes 173 Works Cited 187 Index This page intentionally left blank The Postwar African American Novel
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