{"title":"Man Out of Time: Beetlecreek and Midcentury Liberalism","authors":"J. C. Hall","doi":"10.1353/afa.2022.0017","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:William Demby's first novel Beetlecreek (1950) was produced and received outside major centers of African American literary production. It is most easily framed in terms of currents of cultural talk that saw in the aesthetic an important resource to thriving in the postwar world. Demby's deep investment in the idea of human \"incommensurability\" figures \"liberalism\" as an important framework for understanding the novel and its reception.","PeriodicalId":44779,"journal":{"name":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2022.0017","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:William Demby's first novel Beetlecreek (1950) was produced and received outside major centers of African American literary production. It is most easily framed in terms of currents of cultural talk that saw in the aesthetic an important resource to thriving in the postwar world. Demby's deep investment in the idea of human "incommensurability" figures "liberalism" as an important framework for understanding the novel and its reception.
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As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations.