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Author Gifford, Justin, 1975-

Title Pimping fictions : African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing / Justin Gifford
Published Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature
Contents 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
Summary "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 paperbacks written by Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. The author draws from an impressive array of archival materials to provide a literary and cultural history of this distinctive genre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation
Goines, Donald, 1937-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation
Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992. Pimp
SUBJECT Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992. Pimp
Goines, Donald, 1937-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation
Goines, Donald, 1937-1974 fast
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 fast
Subject Holloway House Publishing Co. -- History
SUBJECT Holloway House Publishing Co. fast
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism
Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
Urban fiction, American -- History and criticism
African Americans in literature.
Crime in literature.
Pulp literature, American -- Publishing -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Mystery & Detective.
African Americans in literature
American fiction -- African American authors
Crime in literature
Detective and mystery stories, American
Urban fiction, American
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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