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The African American experience in crime fiction : a critical study /

An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crafton, Robert E., 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Putting Things in Perspective -- 1. High Anxiety -- 2. A More Perfect Union: Pauline Hopkins, Hagar's Daughter and the Struggle for Equality -- 3. "A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem": Rounding Up the Usual Suspects -- 4. Plus ça change: Chester Himes's Harlem Domestic Series -- 5. Entr'Acte: A Postmodernist Interlude -- 6. Falling into History: Easy Rawlins and the Arc of African American Experience -- 7. Our Kind of People: Stephen L. Carter and the Mysteries of the Black Bourgeoisie -- 8. Detecting Difference? -- Chapter Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. 
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