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portada pimping fictions: african american crime literature and the untold story of black pulp publishing
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2013
Language
English
Pages
216
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6x15x1.5 cm
Weight
0.29 kg.
ISBN
1439908117
ISBN13
9781439908112
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pimping fictions: african american crime literature and the untold story of black pulp publishing

Justin Gifford (Author) · Temple University Press · Paperback

pimping fictions: african american crime literature and the untold story of black pulp publishing - Gifford, Justin

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Synopsis "pimping fictions: african american crime literature and the untold story of black pulp publishing"

"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 Pimping Fictions, Justin Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. Gifford draws from an impressive array of archival materials to provide a first-of-its-kind literary and cultural history of this distinctive genre. He evaluates the artistic and symbolic representations of pimps, sex-workers, drug dealers, and political revolutionaries in African American crime literature-characters looking to escape the racial containment of prisons and the ghetto. Gifford also explores the struggles of these black writers in the literary marketplace, from the era of white-owned publishing houses like Holloway House-that fed books and magazines like Players to eager black readers-to the contemporary crop of African American women writers reclaiming the genre as their own.

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