Pimping Fictions : African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing /

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"Lush sex and stark violence colored Black and served up raw by a great Negro writer, " promised the cover of Run Man Run, Chester Himes' pioneering novel in the black crime fiction tradition. In this book, the author provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperback...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gifford, Justin, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Himes, Chester B., > 1909-1984.
Goines, Donald, > 1937-1974.
Himes, Chester B., > 1909-1984 > Criticism and interpretation.
Goines, Donald, > 1937-1974 > Criticism and interpretation.
Iceberg Slim, > 1918-1992. > Pimp.
Holloway House Publishing Co.
Holloway House Publishing Co. > History.
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
Urban fiction, American.
Detective and mystery stories, American.
Crime in literature.
American fiction > African American authors.
African Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Mystery & Detective.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature de gare americaine > Édition > Histoire.
Criminalite dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Pulp literature, American > Publishing > History.
Urban fiction, American > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • He jerked his pistol free and fired it at the pavement : Chester Himes and the transformation of American crime literature
  • Pimping fictions : Iceberg Slim and the invention of pimp literature
  • The revolution will not be televised : Donald Goines, Holloway House Publishing Company, and the radicalization of Black crime literature
  • Black in a white paradise : utopias and imagined solutions in Black crime literature
  • For he who is : Players magazine and the reimagining of the American pimp
  • The women of street literature : contemporary Black crime fiction and the rise of the self-publishing marketplace.

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