Rediscovering Frank Yerby: critical essays
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University Press of Mississippi
Ort:
Jackson
Entstehungszeit:
2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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Introduction -- Focus on Yerby: transforming teaching and research at Paine College / Catherine L. Adams -- Circling the boundaries of the tradition: the strange case of Frank G. Yerby / Guirdex Massé -- Frank Yerby and his readers / Donna-lyn Washington -- "I ain't no man!": blackness, wartime masculinity, and the protest tradition in Frank Yerby's short fiction / Veronica T. Watson -- Overstuffed and undercooked: the film adaptation of Frank Yerby's The Foxes of Harrow / Matthew Teutsch -- Pirates of the Caribbean in Frank Yerby's The Golden Hawk / John Wharton Lowe -- Victim's guilt: Frank Yerby's Speak Now and the "politics" of miscegenation / Gene Andrew Jarrett -- Finding the "necessary anguish": Frank Yerby's "The Tents of Shem" / Stephanie Brown -- A Camus for the common folk: Yerby, religion, and existentialism / Anderson Rouse -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Index.
"Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays is the first book-length study of Yerby's life and work. The collection explores a myriad of topics, including his connections to the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances; readership and reception; representations of masculinity and patriotism; film adaptations; and engagement with race, identity, and religion. The contributors to this collection work to rectify the misunderstandings of Yerby's work that have relegated him to the sidelines and, ultimately, begin a reexamination of the importance of "the prince of pulpsters" in American literature. It was Robert Bone, in The Negro Novel in America, who infamously dismissed Frank Yerby (1916-1991) as "the prince of pulpsters." Like Bone, many literary critics at the time criticized Yerby's lack of focus on race and the stereotypical treatment of African American characters in his books. This negative labeling continued to stick to Yerby even as he gained critical success, first with The Foxes of Harrow, the first novel by an African American to sell more than a million copies, and later as he began to publish more political works like Speak Now and The Dahomean. However, the literary community cannot continue to ignore Frank Yerby and his impact on American literature. More than a fiction writer, Yerby should be put in conversation with such contemporaneous writers as Richard Wright, Dorothy West, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, and more"--
"The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies"--
"Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays is the first book-length study of Yerby's life and work. The collection explores a myriad of topics, including his connections to the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances; readership and reception; representations of masculinity and patriotism; film adaptations; and engagement with race, identity, and religion. The contributors to this collection work to rectify the misunderstandings of Yerby's work that have relegated him to the sidelines and, ultimately, begin a reexamination of the importance of "the prince of pulpsters" in American literature. It was Robert Bone, in The Negro Novel in America, who infamously dismissed Frank Yerby (1916-1991) as "the prince of pulpsters." Like Bone, many literary critics at the time criticized Yerby's lack of focus on race and the stereotypical treatment of African American characters in his books. This negative labeling continued to stick to Yerby even as he gained critical success, first with The Foxes of Harrow, the first novel by an African American to sell more than a million copies, and later as he began to publish more political works like Speak Now and The Dahomean. However, the literary community cannot continue to ignore Frank Yerby and his impact on American literature. More than a fiction writer, Yerby should be put in conversation with such contemporaneous writers as Richard Wright, Dorothy West, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, and more"--
"The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies"--
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