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Contents 3 Introduction CHAPTER ONE 7 Beyond Protest: Retracing the Margins of the Postwar African American Novel CHAPTER TWO 41 “If I Can Only Get It Funny!”: Chester Himes’s Parodic Protest Novels CHAPTER THREE 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 [18.117.251.51] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 08:35 GMT) The Postwar African American Novel This page intentionally left blank ...

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